I used to love that song in the title of this post. Think about it, if wishes were horses, then dreamers would ride.
I would ride.
I've spent most of my life looking for Open Doors and Opportunity. Wishing for whatever that was so I could ride out of my miserable life and into some new, fun, amazingly magical place where my ever desire was granted and life was nothing but wonderful! Exclamation point!
Wishes aren't real. But Open Doors and Opportunity - that's real.
But if wishes were real and I was granted 3 wishes, I would only need one to get everything I ever wanted or needed:
I wish for an infinite amount of wishes so that my every wish would come true.
Since that's not going to happen, here are a few 'real life' wishes I would make:
I wish I had more friends.
We figure out how much we're willing to tolerate and if the person is tolerable we say, "ok, you're my friend".
I have a few I can tolerate, like most anyone, but I don't have nearly enough.
I need more friends because there is more things I want to do. Things I would like to accomplish.
I'd like to start a business with a friend. So I need a rich friend who happens to be smart and compliments my faults. I wish I had more friends.
I'd like to confide in someone when I'm feeling down. So I need an empathetic friend who is good at listening and not speaking. I wish I had more friends.
I'd like to just hang out with a friend. So I need someone who likes to hang out and not say a damn word. I wish I had more friends.
Talking about needing friends is tricky. If any of my "friends" were to actually read this (highly unlikely) then they might be upset if I just told it like it is, or rather, they are.
I might lose friends for instance if I said:
- One I can't trust in one way. Another I can't trust in another way.
- One I can't believe or don't know what to believe.
- One I never see.
- One I can't count on. Wait, make that four, five, maybe all, but definitely one or two, I can't count on.
- One of those I can't count on I do count on but I can't believe.
- One is dysfunctional.
- One is thousands of miles away.
- One is right next door and still thousands of miles away. One is ...
You get the idea.
I need more people to tolerate. Maybe we can do great things together.
I wish I had more money.
Who doesn't?
Money is what makes the world go around.
You have money, you have friends.
You have money, you have a roof over your head.
You have money, you have food.
You have money, you are blessed.
Everyone wants more money. That's the #1 wish I would think. More money.
But there's one thing money can't buy ...
I wish I had more time.
My grandmother passed away. I wish I had more time.
My friend Remus is dead. I wish I had more time.
Another friend is in the hospital right now fighting for his life - unless he's already lost it and we haven't been told. I wish I had more time.
That one girl flew away. I wish I had more time.
I have to be an adult now. I wish I had more time.
That ballgame was a lot of fun. I wish I had more time.
- I wish I had more peace.
- I wish I could take a nap.
- I wish more Open Doors and Opportunity would present itself - more often.
- I wish that one thing that one time hadn't ever happened.
- I wish I could start that business.
- I wish I could make that idea I had into a reality.
- I wish I could write a song as good as ...
- I wish the fair would last longer.
- I wish I had more friends.
If wishes were horses I would ride and ride and ride.
That's what Open Doors and Opportunity is about - because accepting the friends you have, and appreciating the time you've got, and securing what little money you can, and that little cat nap that wasn't enough but you got it anyhow - all the things you can give thanks for - all the things you've been blessed with - are good.
And those things do lead to Open Doors and Opportunity.
Maybe wishes do get granted after all.
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