Day 300
Well, here I am … day 300! I’ve made it this far … I’m rather tickled with myself!
I’d say I’d wish I could rewrite some entries … but it is what it is … and I wouldn’t want to waste a wish on anything as trivial as that if I had wishes to make.
I watched part of a movie the other night … another one of the continual holiday movies that are playing on a few cable channels … it was about some girl and the twelve wishes she was granted.
Now, if I had twelve wishes … I certainly would not squander them on a good hair day for a friend or new shoes for myself (as the girl in the movie did). I’d go bigger, grander, global.
Which, makes me think, actually, WHAT WOULD I WISH FOR?
If I had those twelve wishes … what would I wish for?
I’d like to think that I’d wish to go back in time and change Tim’s fate. But I know in my heart that that is an impossibility – even when I’m dealing in the realm of make believe and wish granting – I know it was his destiny. I maybe could change that he died of cancer … but I truly believe that was his day to go forward and nothing – even wishes – could change that. So … as much as I’d like to … I think I’d be wasting a wish.
World Peace. Of course that would top my list. John Lennon’s song Imagine comes to mind whenever I hear those two words. Imagine. Just imagine what this world would be like … what people could do … how much better lives would be … without war and hate and revolution and chaos. World peace would top my list.
The end of worldwide hunger. I don’t often think about it … but there are some days or times when I am eating and I can barely swallow whatever food is on my plate. I know that what I’m eating is more than some families have to eat in 2 or 3 or 4 days. Or more. And I don’t just mean some third world countries … there are children in our own country who go to bed night after night hungry.
I’d wish for the end of child abuse, neglect and exploitation.
I’d wish for clean water.
I’d wish for enough money to provide for my friends and family a worry-free existence and enough money to make a difference to those in need – whatever those needs might be.
I’d wish for the end of sickness and disease and pain.
That takes me through only half of my wishes. I know if any of those were to come true the whole balance of our world would be thrown off-kilter … but I’d be willing to see what would happen.
I envision the neighborhood of Leave it to Beaver … when actually it would probably look more like I Phelta Thigh frat house on some college campus.
In any case … I’d have to give some thought to this wish thing and tweak it a bit … but I’ve got a good start if ever the opportunity arises.
What would you wish for?