Day 29 - Three Wishes

If I were to be given three whole wishes it would be rather easy to simply ask for unlimited money, unlimited security, and unlimited time. Those are all tangible enough to basically cover all the things I would need outside of being unable to age. But all of that would be easy, far too easy for my liking. These exercises are meant to be a bit challenging, so in order to do that I am going to limit myself to wishes that are finite and tangible. Now that we have my conditions, the terms if you will, out of the way that forces me to buckle down and think. To speculate. To wish.

So for my first wish from this genie, it's a genie granting these wishes I assume, I would have to wish for a super room in whichever house I am living that will always be fully stocked with reels of films, the newest games/consoles, and an endless rack of vinyls and mp3s with the dankest speaker system of all time. My guess is that 3-D glasses will also be in this room because why the fuck not? Having a place to escape to would be great, even if I was responsible for all the furnishings. I'd probably put a fish tank in this room as well, fish are fun to watch. Maybe even play a game about a fish, but instead of controlling the fish I would take the role of the fish food. Now that's some NEXT GEN shit!

Second wish? Here I would probably wish for one year where I had to worry about nothing else except traveling around the world. That would give me more than enough time to see the major places I want to visit and I'd probably have enough time in between to stop home for long enough stretches in order to minimize homesickness. In this wish I would need to include that I'd have to be provided with the funds to travel all over the world and the country because I imagine it would get pretty expensive. I'd buy my own knick-knacks, but the actual plane costs, hotel rooms, and food need to be accounted for obviously. Still, this seems like a worthwhile wish that would provide me with some great experiences.

Last wish, I wish I had two more wishes. But since that is not an option I think I would wish for universal peace. Nah, that's too big. I should use one of these wishes to help other people, I reckon. Plus it has to be finite, which means no curing disease or anything. Hmm. This is tough. I guess I can't keep this wish in the holster, huh? I would wish for one day where I could talk to whoever I wanted to, living or dead. Actually, maybe one week. Yeah, that's a good wish. Especially if I could record all of it.

That's a damn solid batch of wishes.

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Tomorrow's Topic (Day 30!): A Picture

Day 26 - Goals

On the road of life everyone needs a trucker buddy. Additionally, everyone needs some sort of goal to work towards. What I like to do is set small moments of anticipation, but when I set goals they are usually long term, and rather intangible. Throughout the course of this I think I have already partially showed what many of my goals are as well, which means that I am probably just going to be recapping a few of my long term desires from here on out, so if you are a regular reader we can do some fact checking. There will be a test at the end, so it would behoove you to pay attention, and if you do not know what behoove means there is a 99.5% chance that you have already passed a point of no return.

The big goals in my life are all there, at some point in the future I would like to have a job that I love, preferably one that allows me to use my English language expertise in an industry that I have interest in, which means i need to start focusing on one type of media instead of continuing my quest to be a jack of all trades media conglomerate. Passion is fickle, but I have had success capturing passions, which mean it only needs to be refined. Like oil. There goes the magic, it all becomes real. The stars are nothing more than gas when we get up close, but we still continue to fly.

At some point I would like to have a family, my own house, all the manufactured ambitions that make me an American. Though above this I feel more compelled, while I still have the youth, though not always the means, to start traveling a bit more. The United States especially fascinates me. I don't consider myself incredibly patriotic, at least not blindly loyal, but I love the country and would like to see more of it, to learn about the different perspectives that exist. I think, occasionally, about the vast number of people in the world, how they are unaware of me, but perhaps somewhere else someone is thinking about the world as well, and in a way we are thinking about one another. Perhaps in different languages. I may never know, but I can at least see.

Though the goal that hovers above them all is arguably the most simple. I just want to learn. Knowledge is always acquired, but there is always more to accrue. More to experience. More to synthesize. Intangible? Perhaps. Unmeasurable? The subjectivity of knowledge says no. But I can strive. People just float, but I can drop my arms and try to drift in the intended direction.

Thanks for reading.

Tomorrow's Topic: Future

Rich