If I Had Three Wishes, OR, Daring To Dream

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IF I had three wishes, what would they be?

On the Steem platform, challenges keep making the rounds. Someone will come up with a theme, write a post and then nominate others to carry on with the theme. I don’t always participate when nominated. Other times the challenge will sit on my to do list for a while before I’ll finally tackle it.

A while ago, Hive account@guiltyparties put out a challenge for people to write about what they would want if they had three wishes. It was pretty simple:

Make a post with the three wishes
Mention someone who like this sort of thing
Use the #three-wishes tag

A few days later others — Hive account@sgt-dan, Hive account@blind-spot, Hive account@inthenow and Hive account@snook — decided that I should be tagged. And there sat the challenge on my to do list. I think they did this to taunt me. To keep on nipping at my heels reminding me I’d not yet risen to this challenge.

I’ve always been a person who tends to view wishes as ‘wishing doesn’t make it true’. As I kept mulling this over, I kept swinging between wish big cause they wont happen and be practical, you never know what might happen.

And then — it hit me.

Wishes are dreams. We don’t think twice about having dreams in our life. In fact, identifying our dreams and then working to make them happen is a driving force in most lives worth living.

What would your life be without having dreams of making things better? Or dreams of the adventures you want to have? The dreams of how you’d make the world better if you had the resources? The person you want to be?

My life without dreams would be bloody boring. I could see myself staring endlessly, pointlessly, vacantly at a computer screen or a TV. Not knowing, or not caring what I was going to do next because — what’s the point. If there’s nothing to dream for, why is life worth living.

My wishes don’t have to be crazy, wild or impossible. They can be if I decide they are. My wishes can be currently out of reach, but reachable if I really put my mind to them.

So, here goes nothing.

1. Write and publish that first book.
Yep, this one is doable. Just as soon as I plant my butt in the chair, decide on the topic and put those fingers on the keyboard. OH, some research would be a good start. The only thing stopping this wish from coming true is my own actions and determination.

2. That brand new, ranch style bungalow with wrap around veranda.
I’ve always loved those older homes with the verandas where you could sit down and enjoy being outside in any weather. Well, maybe not in the winter unless you really enjoy Canadian winters outside.

This one is doable. It ~~may~~ will mean I have to write and do a really good marketing job on more than one book. Several are going to be needed to get this accomplished. They had better be good. I think my butt may need to be glued to the chair for a time.

3. Would not be me if one wishes didn’t involve building community by helping others.
Anyone who knows me, knows volunteerism and helping others has been a big part of my life. When we give our time, talent and treasures to help others who are less well off, we build strong communities.

I’ve given thousands of hours of time and talent over the years. My last wish would be to use treasures earned from writing to donate funds toward worthy causes of my choosing.

I think I better plan on getting a really comfortable chair. The more wishes I think of, the more writing will be needed to make them happen.

I didn’t have to tie my wishes to writing but, if I’m going to make the wishes into dreams to work toward, tying them to writing just makes sense.

So, don’t feel you have to make your wishes based on writing. Feel free to do so though, or any other tasks you want to undertake to change your future.

Also, don’t wait to be tagged. Be inspired and write your own wishes down.

Just in case you need some nudging, I’ll nominate: Hive account@isaria, Hive account@rhondak, Hive account@enchantedspirit, Hive account@artemisnorth