Word choice

It makes me wonder what my wishes would be had I been lucky enough to trip over a magic lamp or maybe come across a magic genie.  My first would certainly be to have an indefinite number of wishes more (yeah, talk about greed).  And next, to keep the lamp for myself.  Ha-ha.

But seriously, I don’t really subscribe to the idea of getting things easily.  Hard-earned things usually become more important to the person who worked for it, rather than those that were simply presented to him on a silver platter.

Regardless, I still came up with these three wishes that I perhaps would want to have the most:

(1)    A job to love

I’m still looking forward to that day when I can finally tell myself and other people that I love my job.  Loving one’s job means that you do it because you like to, and not because you need to.

            Mine is a fucking need-to.  End of discussion.

(2)    A healthy life

In one of my recent e-mails to a close friend, I mentioned the idea of getting old dawning on me these days.  I’ve been living for a quarter of a century already and I don’t think I am paying enough attention to my health.  I buy multivitamins that I do not take anyway and I’ve visited the gym for like, only three times this past year.  No, two.  Wait, did I pay a visit?

I never consider going for a full medical check-up in fear of subjecting myself to all these medical stuff that they use and much more, the possibility of learning that I have armpit cancer as a result of using too much deodorant or something even weirder.  And grosser. 

(3)    A significant death

Somebody once told me that a big fear of his is to live an insignificant life; and even bigger, to have a worthless death.

I completely feel the same way actually.  I can’t imagine losing my life in such futility like say, choking myself to death while drinking water or unknowingly swallowing a rusty screw inserted in a chicken breast.  The latter scenario is based on a personal experience, by the way. 

Reading over my list, I think my wishes are pretty reasonable.  I might as well just be my own genie and fulfill such desires–at least the first two.

And besides, I don’t want to wait in vain for that lamp.

This entry was posted on Sunday, January 21st, 2007 at 6:53 am and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.