Last night we gathered in our friend’s house and while we were talking about prices of houses in US vs here, one read a joke which goes this way;
A homeless man found a genie lamp and rubs it. The genie comes saying “your three wishes are my command!” and the man said “I wish for a luxury home, a luxury car and a luxury suit”. Genie then replied with sorrow, “dude, don’t you think if I could build a house then I wouldn’t live in this tiny old stinky oil lamp!”
From there we started to talk about our three wishes. Knowing that asking genie “I wish you grand my wishes forever” is not part of the game.
It was funny without any thinking and in split of a second the host said; “I dream for unlimited wealth, physical and mental health and an ageless life (a life without aging and not an immortality necessarily)”.
While others mentioned their and condemn such wishes because life would lose its value when you are ageless and you see your partner and children age. I was thinking of my own.
Since a couple of months ago I have started a new mental journey in spiritual side of life by reading mystics like Rumi, Hallaj, Attar, Shams Tabrizi, etc. and saw more into life. it was funny I didn’t have wishes. To be honest I just said “maybe my wish would be this life to end and see beyond what is after this!”
After I said such, many paused and were surprised if my wish came out of depression. Though my deepest purpose was to be free from this limited world and be able to experience what lies ahead. But then maybe this was too much and started to think again and see what would be my only three worldly wishes to ask genie, if ever.
And again, I didn’t think of immortality, perfect health, perfect wealth or etc. for I thought those are process of valuable life and one should enjoy all these process and ups and downs of life. however, one wish came across and that alone seemed sufficient for me. My one and simple wish was to be able to go 20 years back in time and keep all the knowledge and information and experiences I carry till now.
Thinking about my only wish I started to dig deeper and see where this wish I coming from. Do I carry regrets or shame or unsatisfaction of my current life situation? The more I analyzed the more I saw the cause is the missed opportunities I have from the past. One could be the opportunity to migrate and flourish in another developed country and continuing enhancing my skills that I’ve had started to developed when I lived abroad. And now I had to put most of those skills aside because of language, culture and society differences this country has.
But the more I thought about it, the more I realized, who I am now, is because of what I have decided along the way. And I don’t have any regret at all. I am proud of who I am now and I know my life just like many other persons on this planet earth was not easy all along. I had my shares of ups and downs and I still have some. But these are all part of life and accepting it makes the journey pleasant.
I have many things to thank about and I am grateful for and I enjoy my current state and the journey I am taking in learning about humanity and passion and love.
Maybe that is the only purpose to life; to live.
What would your three wishes be? Why you wish for them?“I am smiling at myself today. There is no wish left in the heart. Or perhaps there is no hart left. Free from all desires, I sit quietly like Erath.” – Rumi
