I love this writing prompt. What would my three magic genie wishes be? It’s so fascinating to consider because who hasn’t thought at one point or another, I wish I had a magic genie who could grant me three wishes? I know I have as I have sat watching Aladdin with my son (only about a million times, it was one of his favourites!).
It’s interesting also because yesterday, I realised that I had healed an old childhood wound. That the inner child in me had finally had one issue put to rest. Namely, the need to keep up with the Jones’s. The heart of that lies in being a teenager and being sent to a private school where a lot of my fellow pupils came from homes far wealthier than my own. When I had my son, I didn’t want him to go through the same issues I did, including the bullying that went on. So, I created the illusion of a life always thinking that I didn’t want to repeat the same thing for my son. What I didn’t realise at the time was that in looking at what I didn’t want so thinking I was shifting into what I did want, I was still actually bringing what I didn’t want to me. I also realised that in deciding what you do want based on what you don’t want, you are really placing a limit on yourself. You’re not thinking really openly but, actually, tremendously narrowly. What I was doing was thinking narrowly by creating an illusion rather than thinking openly and bringing a reality to me.
In considering what three requests I would make of a genie, I am going to think of the limitless potential that is available to all of us. And be clear on what I truly want. That’s all. What I want, not what I don’t want and posit the opposite of that. Why? Because that way of thinking is based in lack, and we never manifest from a position of lack. So, here are my three wishes from my genie:
1. Be a best-selling author. I want the genie to magic me into the position where I am a best-selling author. I’m talking J. K. Rowling levels of best-selling author and income.
2. Lose weight. I know, this is a lazy way of doing things but I would like the genie to magically reduce my weight so it’s done overnight and stays off.
3. Successful business. I am starting a business with a friend imminently. A spiritual business to which I contribute my coaching skills. I would like the genie to magically have it all set up and established and being successful.
This is all impatience, I know. I did toy with the idea of the genie making me slightly taller, I do fancy being a bit taller than I am but to be honest, it’s not enough of a priority for me to use up one of my wishes. But then, do we use the genie’s three wishes to achieve the impossible. What I have listed above is not impossible, I’m just being impatient. So, what are my three impossible wishes?
1. Be three inches taller. Yes, 5′ 5.5″ would quite nice.
2. Have a stately home. I don’t necessarily want to be a member of the aristocracy but I would love to live in a stately home, to be able to wander around one at will because it’s my home. I don’t want to have anyone evicted from their home, but if the genie could re-write history for me so that I get to have the stately home I could be comfortable with that. I think. That said, I could just live in a village with a stately home nearby that I could go to and walk around whenever the fancy takes me. So perhaps it isn’t such an impossible wish after all. I could be happy doing that.
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And I’m struggling now. Other than being taller and having a stately home at my disposal, I can’t think of an ‘impossible’ wish. Though I’m not sure the latter is as impossible as I first assumed. I don’t want to be a princess or anything in the aristocracy. I don’t want different hair or eye colour or anything like that.
In many respects I guess the question is what is really impossible? I’ve read that you can even have an operation that makes you taller though it sounds hideous and is absolutely not something I am prepared to go for.
No, I’m going to stick with my original three wishes I think. Yes, they are based on my impatience. Yes, I’m going to achieve those things ultimately anyway but it would be nice to be in that position now.
So, those are my three genie wishes. I’ll let you know when I find the lamp!
Louisa Simpson 