When I thought of the word wish, the first thing that came to my mind was Aladdin's lamp. Who hasn't dreamed of finding one of those magic lamps? (in the event that such things existed, of course) Surely more than one has thought of the hypothetical case of finding one so that an all-powerful genie could fulfill our most desired wishes and also surely more than one has come up with the brilliant idea that our first wish would be to multiply the number of wishes by many more, it happened to me, will I never be satisfied?
Today I let myself be carried away by simplicity and I just want to dream a little that Aladdin is with me and is willing to fulfill the 3 wishes that the tradition says, but as he already has a lot of experience in his work, he deleted from his list that wish to multiply the wishes, he told me that he got tired of greed, dissatisfaction and selfishness of people who want everything for themselves and simply deleted it from the possibility of being chosen. He also excluded from the list to be a millionaire, he told me that he was bored of everyone asking for that.
So, in my daydream of making 3 wishes that will be fulfilled as if by magic, without thinking too much, I made my list:
1. To have a house of my own.
I was very curious thinking about what it would be like to achieve my desires and I tried to evoke those moments to play with myself for a while and these were the results:
Wish N° 1 (To have a house of my own)
I imagined closing my eyes as I made the wish and when I opened them it should have been fulfilled and if I tell them...
I got a dollhouse!
Snails! I would have defined my wish better, the genie gave me a house and told me it was mine, he fulfilled it, but I never told him it was for me to live in. Well neither did I specify where or how, so after all I think it was better to receive a beautiful dollhouse than to have appeared, for example, in a house in a hostile and unsafe place.
At least with the dollhouse I would have a nice gift to give to my nieces, I'm sure they would be very happy.
Wish N° 2 (to find a beautiful life partner).
This time, I imagined myself in my bed and that my beautiful life partner would be by my side giving us warmth and affection. I wanted her head on my chest as she listened to my heart and I stroked her hair.
Suddenly, after the hypothetical case of my wish fulfilled, my companion is much smaller than I wanted and that was not exactly what I wanted at that moment, I wanted a person, but to tell you the truth the puss is not that bad, she really is a great companion and very beautiful.
Again I failed to specify my wish, still, it turned out to be a very good thing.
Wish #3 (for my mother to have full and radiant health)
This wish seems that I formulated it in a clearer way, so I should not receive something different from what I really long for and I think I am on the right track because when I talk to my mother on the phone I hear her very happy and full of enthusiasm, it has been 2 weeks since I last saw her. I am sure that when I go to visit her very soon, I will find her full of health and vitality.
This wish has no way to be misinterpreted, I think so, so I will do my best to believe it and imagine it, they say it helps. Of course it won't be by magic, she must follow her treatments while she takes care of herself and we take care of her.
All of this made me reflect on what my most cherished desires are at the moment and what I am doing to achieve them. Maybe life is not giving me many things I want just because I don't even have a plan to carry them out or am doing anything meaningful to at least get closer to achieving them. I know many things don't depend on me like my mother's health, but I can contribute to her well being, that I do.
Meeting my life partner is difficult because I almost never leave home and as for having my own house, I have only been worrying about that. So many desires remain unfulfilled because I do not do something forceful so that it is not so, I think I should not waste more time and better plan my activities with clear and defined objectives to no longer wish so much but enjoy the reality.
“Some people want something to happen, some people dream about what will happen, some people make it happen."
This writing is inspired by @galenkp's proposal for this weekend.