About two nights ago, my boyfriend finally popped the age-old question while I was trying to go to sleep…
If you could make 3 wishes that would become instantly true, what would they be?
We had about a 30-minute long conversation about what our wishes would be and the implications of our actions when ‘the genie’ inevitabally morphs our wishes to teach us a lesson. We determined that I had been emotionally scarred by the role that the ‘3 wishes’ conversation has played throughout my life… appearing in Disney shows where the stars accidentally wish their family away or end up having these terrible lives because they didn’t ensure they were making their wishes ‘correctly’ (think Wizards of Waverly Place the movie and Alex with the family wand).
This conversation made me wonder… if we thought about the implications of our actions in our daily lives as much as we do when it comes to make imaginary ‘wishes’, would we do things differently? If that is the case, why don’t we think before we act as if the genie was watching over us reminding us of what could happen if we make the wrong ‘wish’, or action?
There have been several times within the past year alone that I have been hurt by someone else’s actions. I think this is relatively common, especially in college, however, could this reoccurance be eliminated if we learned the implications of our actions before we completed them? If that’s the case, what does that take?
By thinking through what we say, or do, before we do it, and having the inner dialogue of what the implications of our actions could look like, I think we could spare ourselves a ton of emotional vulnerability as well as salvage our relationships.