DAY.FIVE> Genie in a bottle

You're probably wondering about the title of this post. Well, so am I. I'm sure we'll figure it out by the end of this. Five days deep, we seem to be still going strong. Every day continues to bring a new and inspired sense of direction along with an elevated sense of adventure. I was thinking earlier today - is this what I've always wanted to do? Is it everything that I had imagined it to be? Well, if I imagined freedom, an open road, endless possibilities and indulging in those one by one? And if it entailed newness of life and great conversations then well yes. It is what I imagined it to be.

In an average day, people say the phrase "I wish" a lot more often than you would think. Start paying attention to the "I wishes" you encounter everyday. "I wish i could go out tonight"/"I wish i could have done better"/"I wish i knew that"/"I wish i got the job"/"I wish I could do that". LET's focus on the last one for a second - I've been hearing that one a lot lately, can you figure out why? Well I don't feel like going into too much detail about it but it kind of got me thinking.

What if all this wishing came true? A genie is known to grant three wishes. I was wondering.. what if I could come to a point in my life when I finally encountered this genie and when asked for what I wished for, I stood silently partly in awe of the fact that I had found a genie! And partly dumbfounded looking for words to describe what I wished for - when I realized that everything I wanted was here and complete. Everything I had wished for, I had gone out and taken?

Wouldn't that be amazing if you and I could spend our lives starting from this day making things happen instead of wishing they happened? You know, I've come to believe and my belief has solidified in the reality of the fact that the good things in this life were never meant to just happen, but that they are a result of positive and consistent action on our part.