Chapter 52 three wishes

2000/05/12 Sanlian Life Weekly Author: Hua Bud There is a joke that everyone has heard: a poor couple gets help from a fairy in one day, and their three wishes can be granted.The hungry farmer immediately said that it would be nice to have a sausage, and just as he finished speaking, the sausage appeared.His wife was maddened to see him wasting a wish in this way, and cursed him to let the sausage grow up his nose.Her wish also came true.The ending of the story, the third wish, is naturally to take down that damned sausage.The joke seems so cruel to me: you have a chance to get what you want, but you don't necessarily take it.

When I am free, I ask myself: If you give me three opportunities, what is my wish?The first thought is that I want to be healthy and happy, and keep away from frustration.When I think about it, I find that these wishes are too much influenced by Yi Shu’s novels to be too demanding: I am not unhealthy now, I can play tennis for four hours at a stretch; tedious? Everyone's desires are so different, but many people's desires are related to money.A very good friend of mine has been doing something that many people who admire her can't believe (of course they don't know it): buying sports lottery tickets every issue, hoping to win the big prize.The purpose is to fulfill my desire for a trip to Europe and Africa.However, many times you will find that your most urgent desire cannot be realized with money alone.For example, after thinking twice, I found that what I want most now are three things: the DVDs of "Cinema Paradiso" and "God Is Crazy. Escape Death", and a set of "The Complete Works of Jin Yong".Such desires seem too "sensual", self-interested, and very vulgar, but they are indeed the things that concern me the most at the moment.

"Paradise Cinema" is the most obsessed movie among the movies I have seen. The nostalgic and aesthetic atmosphere made me fall in love at first sight, which has always been unrealistic.And I want "God Is Crazy. Escaping Death" because I was so depressed after watching the film that I felt relaxed and my facial muscles were sore (laughing).It's a pity that the common feature of these two films is that they can't be met, and the more you can't get it, the more you want it. I was addicted to the point of paranoia.In the past three years, I have to go to the video store wherever I go, and ask if there are these two films before browsing. The boss or the clerk will always give me a confused look.

My third wish is very easy to realize now, "The Complete Works of Jin Yong", just go to the bookstore to buy it, but I haven't gone to the bookstore to pay for it.The reason is that the fulfillment of my first two wishes is really agnostic.If the only achievable wish is so simple and ended, then wouldn't there be no hope in the future and only a lost path?