You hear this next sentence I am going to write, particularly
on cooking programmes. Here’s one I prepared earlier. I’ve gotten so hooked on
this blogging that I daren’t miss a day now. My goal is to keep up my daily ramblings.
So I hear you say what are you rambling on about now? Well today we have been
at a camping and caravan show way over near Southampton. I booked us a run
there by bus, oops I mean coach. It will be a long day. Coach leaves at 0800
and returns at 2200. So I will not really be in any mood to write at that item
of the night. You will have to wait until Sundays blog to hear how the day
went, but in the meantime here is a little snippet from my ‘writings’ file.
This is from an exercise from a creative writing course I did years ago. It was about our wishes
Sometimes
I think about what I would wish for if I was granted just three wishes, having
just released a friendly genie from his incarceration in a magic lamp.
I’d
try to combine as much as possible into the three wishes, things like for
everyone to be happy, but that could mean the happiness of some is at the
expense of others so that won’t do. How about world peace, now that is a good
one, but is enforced peace permanent peace or just a truce like the grudging
one you make with your sister after mum catches you fighting again. So world
peace mightn’t be the right thing either. I don’t want to waste the wishes.
Perhaps I could wish for everyone to be able to reach their full potential, but
as what, soldiers and military leaders reach theirs by being killing machines
so that wish wouldn’t work either. Perhaps a wish for us to be free of illness
and disease, it would be a wonderful thing, but then some people only realise
the value of their life when life itself is challenged. I thought it would be
easy to use the three world wishes to make everything perfect for everybody, no
famine, no disease, no unhappiness, no dissent, but I think if it there were no
challenges and we had nothing to strive for then perhaps there would be no
humanity, just complacency. So I think I would make just one wish and that
would be that each one of us would be able to live in harmony with the other.
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