If I was granted one wish…
Jul 7th, 2011 by monicamoran
A few times in my life, I recall being asked the same question over and over again: If you were granted one wish, what would it be? Literally, the question in itself is quite simple but its dimensions and layers upon layers of dept creates its complexity. Well, for me at least. See the thing is, if you indeed were given this one wish that indeed came true, would you wish for something for yourself or for the greater good of mankind? Would you waste it for money or for fame? Or use it to change something in the world that could carry on for countless generations? And there lays the complexity of such a question. What decision will you ultimately make if you had this limited yet valuable power?
In those many times I have been asked this, I never seemed to give a proper answer. Usually my reply would be along the cliched lines of “I don’t know…one wish isn’t enough” or “I would wish for ten more.” It was just too big of a question for me because I honestly didn’t know how to answer something like that. Selfish me would wish for all the money in the world or to gain immediate success, a jump start to my career. Yet why waste a wish on something that I could achieve myself if I worked for it? It would be tougher and longer but I’ll get there eventually. So scratch that. Now selfless me would wish for world peace, where governments rid themselves of corruption, and humanity rid themselves of slavery, inequality and greed. We’d all like that. And given the global turn of event’s and negative headlines splashed all across the news, who wouldn’t want to wish for a better world. A world without sin..
So as I sit here sipping on hot chocolate and listening to Jon Schmidt’s mash up of Love Story and Viva La Vida, my mind still can’t shift through all the possible rubble of wishes that circulates my mind. Selfish or selfless me? Selfless me clearly seems to be winning. So why can’t I still make a final decision? Come to think of it I don’t think I’ll ever have a definite answer. See the thing is, a world without sin, without evil is purely impossible. Even if we were to wish it, humanity would never evolve. We become stronger when we have gone through suffering one way or another. It’s in our nature. We have to fall down to get back up again. I am not saying that global conflicts are a good thing. I am merely stating that in some way, it contributes to development. And that’s why I can’t just wish for that even if I was granted a wish. It’s too complicated. Maybe I’ll wish for a superpower or something. But we all know that’s too unrealistic for this world and this lifetime.
So, as corny as it may sound, be careful what you wish for because a wish isn’t as simple as it’s cut out to be.