“Wishes” in Your Heart

When I was a child I was fascinated with the Aladdin story where he rubs the lamp and a genie pops out to grant him three wishes.  What a gift, right?  The genie just snaps his fingers and voila, wishes granted!  What kid doesn’t dream up his own three wishes?  A new car, a million dollars, the perfect body? 

So one day during my high school years I was having a conversation with a friend and asked him what he would wish for if he had three wishes.  Money, a hot girlfriend, and a cool car was his answer.   Then he asked me what I’d wish for and I said a million dollars, the perfect body, and 3 more wishes. We played the “wishing for more wishes” game for a while until our list of things we wanted was pretty long.

But as I got on in years I began to reconsider what I would really wish for if I was ever presented with the opportunity.  You have to be prepared for everything right?  And if a genie ever did pop out of a lamp and offer me three wishes I wanted to be ready.  Around this time I’d seen a lot of tv shows and read books about people’s wishes backfiring on them; like when the guy wishes for a million dollars so the genie kills his wife who had a million dollar life insurance policy on her.  So as I thought about my wishes I wanted to make sure there would be no loop holes. 

My first wish was for world peace.  But then I realized it probably wouldn’t last because people would just revert to fighting again.  You really have to earn world peace.  So my wish was this:  For 48 hours only I want the world to be in a state of total love and total peace so that when the world reverts back to its previous state after 48 hours people will have had just a taste of what could be achieved if we work really hard at this.  Basically an incentive to change their ways when they could see the reward awaiting them.

My second wish was for everyone to be afflicted with a sense of conscience.  I figured if people really cared about how their actions affected others they would make better choices.

My third wish was for everyone on our planet to have their basic needs taken care of: food, clothing, shelter, etc.

I carried those wishes around with me for a long time, ready to present them to my genie when he appeared.  Hey, luck is what happens when opportunity meets preparedness and I wasn’t going to be caught napping if a genie ever appeared to me.

As I grew older and matured I realized that making wishes that affect the world was not actually my responsibility. I realized that my true responsibility on this planet was just to work on myself.  It’s not that I didn’t care about the rest of the planet, of course I did.  It’s just that I realized the only person I had the right to mess with was myself.  People need to grow and learn at their own rate, for their own reasons.  So my three wishes changed again.  I thought long and very hard about it but really the answer to the three wishes question turned out to be very simple once I tuned in to what I really and truly wanted out of my life.  Today, these are still my three wishes:

*To really know myself.
*To really know another.
*For another to really know me.

That’s it.  In my heart I believe these are the three most powerful wishes I could make.  These are the wishes that provide me the most growth and insight into my own self.  I believe that when you fully know yourself you really understand the universe.  When me and my friends first met, I shared these wishes with them and they understood how important they were to them and how much thought I put into making them.  My friends and I share everything; our thoughts, experiences, hopes, dreams, desires, fears, pain, and disappointments.  They is the one I’ve chosen to know completely, and they understands how important it is to me that he completely knows me as well.

What I didn’t realize when I made these three wishes is that the genie was inside of me.  I had the power to make all three wishes come true on my own.  I stopped looking for the lamp.

There’s a genie inside of you waiting to hear your three wishes; in fact, he may already be granting your wishes even if you don’t realize you’re making them.  Be careful what you wish for, you will get it.

By : Kenny Harsojo XIS1/16

Please Grant My Wishes

            People have many different wishes in their life. If I have 3 wishes for free, I will use all of them for this. First wish, I wish I can be a good mom in the future. I have only one mom and I love her with full of my heart. She always give me her best. She always be there if I need someone to talk about all of my problem and she always try to understand me. Because of that, I want to be like my mom. I want to give my best for my children. So they will have someone to talk to and someone who always be there for them.

           

           Second wish, I wish I can have more fun with my family and friends in my life. There is many sadness and happiness in my life, but I wish there are more fun that can make my life happier. I want to have many happy moments with my family and precious time with my friends. Fun will make my life more colorful. Fun can also make me forget the trouble and maybe I can face them with find an easy way to get out from my trouble. More fun, it means a happier life, a happier life can make us healthier. So if you get more fun, you make your life healthier.

             

           Third wish, I wish I can have a good husband. My life won’t be perfect, if there is no one who want to be here for me. I hope I can have the good one, someone who always there and he give me everything. If I can have a good partner for my life, I’m sure that my life will be happier and perfect. If my husband is the good one, my relationship will be last forever.

By : Stefany Metta XIS2

My Wishes

In this article, I would like to tell you about my three wishes that I would like to be granted. First of all, I would like to be a successful person. Second, I would like to marry the best husband on Earth and last I would like to be smart.

I want to be a successful person. My reason to this is because I want to have a lot of money so that I can make my parents and family proud. I want to make my family happy by buying them everything that they need with my own money from my hard work. And I would like to help the poor from the money I earned.

The reason about my second wish is that I want to have a husband who is always beside me until he's old and never leave. I want him to always support and encourage me when I'm down and will always love me just the way I am even if I already grew old and not as pretty as I was before. I hope that he will never lie to me, be patient to me and calm me down when I'm angry. I know there is no one perfect on this Earth but I'm hoping that he can be loyal to me and be there for me when I needed him most. 

My last wish as to being smart is important to me. I want to be a smart girl so later if I'm working, I can do my job with everything that I ever learn and I can make my boss happy with my job and get the highest position in the office.

I hope that my wishes will come true. Maybe not now, but someday. I believe that God's plans will be beautiful at that time.


By: Selda Fransisca XIS2 

My Three Wishes

"If I could have three wishes from a genie, what would I wish?” There are many wishes I would like my genie to grant, but since I was only give three, it was difficult for me to narrow down my list to the three. The first thing that came to mind was money that one could not have enough. But as I was thinking, I found that there are more important things than money.

Wish Number One

Wish number three came after I put my selfish outlook aside and placed my thoughts into perspective. I wish people in the world would have their needs fulfilled. So, I’m hoping for a better world with no more poor people. Please save their home, provide them with enough money to survive the recession, seeing them smile and not feeling stressed. It’s nature to have rich and poor in the world, but please fulfill the poor’s necessity and I would be very happy.

Wish Number Two

Wish number two was to make all of the people in the world to be free of harmful diseases like cancers that causes pain and hurt. I wish that no more people would suffer from pain or illnesses. I realized of course many of us in the medical field would not have jobs. But, they still can do simpler tasks like stitches, or nausea when someone ends up with food poisoning. So, I would wish to end all sickness. Don't you believe that life would be less worrisome if these things disappeared? I certainly do. 

My Last Wish 

My final wish was eliminating hate, forgiving each other , accepting people for who they were , working together as a world to make this a better place, coming together not dividing or fighting with one another. As my genie granted my final wish I asked myself, "Is all of this possible?" My genie who ended up being none other than God himself said, "Yes my child there is, when there is a will there is a way and it is up to all of us to work together and find it."

Could I save ten thousand people? I certainly could with determination, perseverance and belief that I can do whatever I chose to do if I set my mind to it. And the world being cured of cancers, one day it will as scientists and doctors are researching so that lives can be saved. Will the world ever come together? I believe it can if all of us can set our differences aside.

By: Sylvia Septhiany XIS2/25