Three wishes.
Posted: Wednesday, August 03, 2011
by Casey Starkweather
When I was little, I had a single wish. I wished for it every year, but it never seemed to come true. I wished for peace and for hunger to not be an issue. In my eight year old mind that was one single, simple wish. It was something that should be easy, something that should not be so complicated.But now as a young adult, my wishes have changed. I still wish for impossibilities, but wishes that are not as complex as world peace or ending hunger. I now have come to understand that although wishes are fine, they don't come true on their own. My wishes may never come true, but I plan to do all I can to make them feasible, so that one day, life will be better. I have three simple wishes, two of which are possible. The third, well, the third is a bit difficult for sure.
My second wish is to help others to the best of my ability. That is something I already do, but it is also something that I wish to do for as long as I can. I plan to help people, whether as a lawyer or merely as a listener, this is a visit that I know will come true.
My third wish is different, harder. Perhaps even impossible, although that thought makes my stomach sink. I hate that it is necessary to wish for this, but sometimes the cruelty of the world makes it so. I simple wish that people would stop hurting one another, or causing others to harm themselves. Children, teenagers, and adults should not have to use angry words and fists to make a point. Hurting someone should not be acceptable, ever. Being the cause of someone harming themselves is also unacceptable. As a mentor to teenagers, I have often spoken to abused, bullied, and self abusing teenagers. It saddens me that people have to deal with that pain, pain that I am, unfortunately, familiar with. I wish that people did not have to hurt, didn't have to deal with the cruelty of the world, but this is a wish that I know will not come true. That does not mean, however, that I am foolish to wish for it.
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