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This is a way of making myself write something coherent and grammatically correct almost every day. I'm opinionated and need an outlet. I'm also prone to flights of fancy. Thanks for stopping by. |
| I heard an interesting synopsis of the movie "Into the Woods" today. I haven't seen it, but the individual said everyone in it wishes for something they don't have. Most of literature, movie characters, and fairy tales have people making wishes. In fact, in real life, people generally wish for what they don't have or can't get. Cinderella wishes to dance with her prince. Rapunzel wishes to be free of her tower. The wicked witch wishes to be the fairest in the land forever. You get the idea. It gets the mind reeling about what we wish for. Most of us would agree on some of them. We wish children would never suffer or die from cancer. We wish ISIS didn't exist. We wish there was no need for a word like suicide. We wish there was no such thing as war or terrorism or hijacking of planes, autos, trains, or ships. We wish that no one would go to bed hungry tonight. We wish there was a cure for the common cold, HIV, and Ebola. I saw a woman I know this morning upset and refusing to go home. She didn't recognize her husband and wouldn't leave with him. I knew she was getting forgetful, but this made me cry. I wish no one would have to go through Alzheimer's or any dementia, at least before age 99. I wish no one would get glaucoma. I wish alcoholics could recover, that drug addicts could just say no, that no one would ever start smoking anything. I wish that no one would text and drive, or talk on a cell phone and drive, or drive under any influence. I wish that teachers never had to worry about being attacked, verbally or physically, while on the job. But, hey, let's get serious. I wish I had a stronger singing voice. I wish I could write a noteworthy novel. I wish that I could eat pastries or sausage gravy for breakfast every morning and have gyros for lunch! I wish the hot glazed doughnuts from Krispy Kreme were cholesterol free and low calorie.I wish that staying up late reading or watching old movies didn't make me sleepy the next day. I wish I could meet some of my favorite celebrities. I wish I could travel extensively, but avoid airports. I wish I were rich (even though I know that doesn't solve everything). I can even go back in the past with my wishes. I wish I never had rheumatic fever when I was a child. It could have saved a lot of inconvenience, pain, and expense in the last 18 years, and I could have been healthier and more active in between. I wish my parents had been just a little more comfortable financially when I was very young. I wish I hadn't married the man I did. But welcome to the real world and the present. Wishes don't work out. Once in a while a wish does come true, but we discover it was all wrong for us, or it hurts us even more. Or the fulfilled wish brings a whole new set of problems. It makes us wonder if we had every dream or wish come true, what would be left? Would we get bored? Would there be different wishes? Maybe wishes are part of the human condition, our inability to accept our lives. Wishes might just tell us how unhappy we are with ourselves or our current circumstances. That could be good or not. Just wondering. |
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