Things I Wish
©September 8th, 2015
By Vijaya Sundaram
I wish I could fly (this is what always come to mind when I think of wishes)
I wish I could put back the clock and go to places and times when I’ve hurt someone’s feelings … and take back my hurtful words, and fling them into outer space, where they’ll freeze and fall into the approach of a comet, and change what they are, transforming themselves into benign things.
I wish I could make people see that which is obvious to me — for instance, when people dissimulate, when they over-dramatize, when they distort one’s words, when they manipulate crowds, when they are false, both to themselves, and to others.
I wish I could share my joys and love with ALL the people of the world who have less of both.
I wish I could BE everyone and everywhere just for a day.
I wish I could save all the children whose lives are broken by war, or famine, or disaster, or abuse, or slavery, or neglect.
I wish I could help all people whose lives are so broken.
I wish people could see through to the truth of ALL things, and not be swayed by the demagogues of this world, or by that mind-numbing thing called television.
I wish I could stop thinking of myself as less than I am, at times.
I wish I could stop thinking of myself as more than I am, at times.
I wish I could sky-dive sometime in my life, despite my utter cowardice with regard to it.
I wish I could go deep-sea diving (but I don’t swim).
I wish I could communicate with animals.
I wish to write at least ONE novel, and publish ONE book of short stories, and a few chapbooks of poetry, before I die.
When I die, I wish to die calmly, quietly, welcoming death, ready to go without a struggle, without unnecessary prayers, and without everyone crying over my dying self.
I wish to disappear entirely, and re-appear in another form, perhaps as a bird.
And if not a bird, then to re-appear in the heart of a blue-white star, with a temperature in excess of 35,000 K, then to disappear into the black hole that it would form, when it goes super-nova.
However, in the here and now, relationally speaking, I wish to be a good mother to my daughter, a good daughter to my mother, a good wife to my husband, a good sister to my siblings, a good grand-daughter, a good daughter-in-law, a good sister-in-law, and a good teacher to any students I teach — oh, and a good friend and human being in sum.
That’s all for now.
Cheers and Peace out!
~Dreamer of Dreams
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