Three Wishes is a challenge introduced by @guiltyparties. I was nominated by both @llfarms and @thekittygirl in the past few days and I wanted to see what came up if I started writing. I'm mostly content with life, but that doesn't mean there is nothing I would wish.
How to Participate:
- Make a post with your three wishes
- Mention someone who'd like this sort of thing (@princessmewmew, @katrina-ariel, @bigtom13, and everyone who wants to join - feel free to do so!)
- Use the #three-wishes tag
Wish number 1
I want to be able to pay for the retirement of my boyfriend I always joke about this, but I'm pretty serious about it as well. My boyfriend is the kindest and hardest working person I know, not only because he is working his demanding job until perfection, but also because he is working on himself constantly. He is someone for whom especially the social side of life doesn't come easy, yet he managed to work so much on himself that people who don't know this about him never ever would suspect how much he is grinding through those aspects of life.
He's also always making the most rational decisions, and doesn't like taking risks, so he keeps working his job even though I believe he has many talents that don't necessarily pay well - and him working hard means he finds no time to explore them. I'd love to be the one to give him the chance to 'explore and play' a bit more than he does now. I did convince him to take a sabbatical 3 years ago, and we went traveling, but due to my accident we never completed that journey. So he went back to his job.
In the meanwhile I struggled to recover from that accident and through Steem am able to live a life in which I can explore my talents BUT my particular talents don't pay very well in the off-blockchain society...
Now I just want my crypto to moon so hard that we can invest it wisely and live a good life. Personally I would love to be able to give him a note someday that says something like 'I'm matching your current salary for the next 3 years, now quit your job and do whatever you want with your free time'. I think he deserves it, and I think it would be a huge victory for me as well, to show that my often undervalued talents are able to provide for us in a significant way.
Wish number 2
I want to give my parents a carefree life Is this too close to number one? I don't know. But I'd love to give a piece of freedom to my parents as they've worked hard all their lives and never had the opportunities I believe people of my and younger generations have. They would love to travel, but they are still working and are not yet at retirement age. However, both their work of fields suffer from either automation or value young bodies more than older ones. So while my father for example has been working for 40 years he still needs almost ten years to secure a nice retirement. In the meanwhile the job market doesn't look good for both of them, so it's not certain they will be able to work until retirement, leaving them with a financial gap.
The fact that people need to work half a century just to be 'okay' at the end of their lives while their bodies are already suffering health-wise so the best years have been 'spent' - just pains me. I know, I know, it's 'normal' and I'm privileged even thinking I might be able to find ways for myself to prevent that from happening to me, but yeah, if I could have one thing arranged for them it would definitely be to give them a carefree and happy retirement together, letting them explore parts of the world I, at half their age, have already been able to seen, because my generation is already doing things differently.
They are just beautiful people. And they can so intensely enjoy a simple moment as long as they're together. I want to give them endless amounts of these moments together.
Wish number 3
Let me be healthy till death do me part Dying without suffering. It's a simple one, at least simple to write down, and I'm going to keep this one short. I don't need to live forever, I just don't want to experience getting less and less healthy, physically, although keeping your mental health is imho even more valuable. I've seen people die in the saddest of ways, sometimes sitting next to their death bed for days while they already were 'gone', at least in spirit, and fighting for another breath even though that breath was painful and didn't hold any value to both the dying or their loved ones anymore. I wouldn't mind skipping all of that, or seeing anyone else go through that ever again.
Your turn! - this is an open invite to join. What are the three wishes you would love to see come true in your lifetime?
Disclaimer: these are the wishes I write down today. Heavily influences by what I feel is important today, and probably with what I struggle today. Maybe this should be a yearly theme, because it would very much show over time how our 'biggest wishes' evolve with us growing and experiencing.
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