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My Three Wishes 2011-9-5
My Three Wishes
One day, while walking on the beach, you come across an old teapot sticking out of the sand. When you pick it up, rub off some sand and pull out the stopper at the end of the spout, a genie suddenly comes out of the end of the teapot. He looks at you so happily and says: "I'm free at last. Thank you for setting me free. As a magic genie I shall reward you with three wishes and once you say them out loud, they will come true."
Your assignment for this essay is simple, talk about what you would wish for and why, then talk about what you think will be the result of your wishes.
Your assignment for this essay is simple, talk about what you would wish for and why, then talk about what you think will be the result of your wishes.
The above information is the contest's details as well as requirements.
My participated essay as below:
My Three Wishes
So one day I was having a conversation with a friend and asked him what he would wish for if he had three wishes. Money, a beautiful girlfriend and a sport car were his wishes. Then he turned to ask me what I would wish for and I said, an orchard, a free ticket for traveling around the world and to be a cheerful clown. He smirked and uttered, “Why don’t you wish to be a millionaire? Because people always dream to be rich” “Now, I am wishing for more wishes,” I replied jokily.
As time gone by, I began to reconsider what I would really wish for if I was ever presented with the opportunities. 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.
My first wish was for world peace. Wars indeed are disasters. It not only ruins our mother nature, destroys our lives, and the most excruciate traumata of losses for human beings. But then I realized it probably couldn’t last because people would revert to fight again for their advantages. So my wish was for 24 hours only. I wanted the world in a state of total peace and full of love so that when the world returns to its previous state after 24 hours, people could have had a taste of harmony and a sense of guilt and they would finally come to realization that what could be achieved if they really work hard.
My second wish was for everyone to be afflicted with conscience. I am so sympathetic for those senior citizens who live a life without the care of their children. Parents are selfless, they have contributed a lot for us, and how can we dump them when they are old? If we don’t want to regret and lament, it is necessary to learn to cherish and grateful for what we have now.
My third wish was for everyone on our planet to have their basic needs: like shelter, food, clothing etc, so that they may struggle for a better living.
I carried those wishes with me for a long time, and ready to present them to my genie when he appears. Luck is what happens when opportunity meets preparedness and I wasn’t going to be caught napping if a genie ever did turn up to me.
As I grew up and became mature, I learned that making wishes that affect the world was not actually my responsibility. I was aware of that my true responsibility was to work on myself. It’s not that I didn’t care about the rest of the world, of course I did. I realized that the only person I had the right to mess with was myself. People need to grow and learn at their own way and for their own reasons. So my three wishes changed again. It took me a long time to think of the three wishes, but it turned out to be very simple once I knew what I really and truly wanted out of my life. Today, these are still my three wishes:
1) To always be a grateful person so that I have no reason to complain about life.
2) To be a diligent bee so that honey is my reward.
3) To be a good role model so that I respect by people.
What I didn’t realize when I made these three wishes is that the genie was inside of me. I have the power to make all my three wishes come true on my own. I stopped looking for the lamp.
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Post comment Comment (10 replies)
- Reply sophia_2011
- Good wishes. You must be a soft hearted person.
- Reply 异物
- What a beautiful person you are! I‘m so proud of you. I am really touched by how kind a heart you have in your chest.
But I'm not like you. So I think I'll spent the three wishes like this:
1. Bring back my mother;
2. Make sure she will never leave me;
3. Let me and my parents die at the same time in an earthquake, or a plane crash or something, so no one will be left to live with tears, regrets and endless nightmares.
- Reply SmilingAngel
- sophia_2011: Good wishes. You must be a soft hearted person.
- Reply SmilingAngel
- 异物: What a beautiful person you are! I‘m so proud of you. I really touched by how kind a heart you have in your chest.It's hard for me to reply your words...... I could share you feeling. That's why I always say that I must be a grateful person.
But I'm not like you. So I think
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- Reply admin
- I like your new three wishes, they are more practical, I think. And if every one can achieves these small wishes, then your three big wishes will come true automatically.
- Reply SmilingAngel
- admin: I like your new three wishes, they are more practical, I think. And if every one can achieves these small wishes, then your three big wishes will comeYes, a wish without action is just a fantasy. A goal without a plan is just a wish.
- Reply admin
- SmilingAngel: Yes, a wish without action is just a fantasy. A goal without a plan is just a wish.Think big, act small and keep growing is one of my mottos.
- Reply SmilingAngel
- admin: Think big, act small and keep growing is one of my mottos.I like your motto. Thanks for sharing
- Reply heai88
- 异物: What a beautiful person you are! I‘m so proud of you. I really touched by how kind a heart you have in your chest.hi,...you are never lone, we are all here.
But I'm not like you. So I think
