Be Careful What You Wish For

I just got done watching one of my favorite movies, "Coraline."

It's a story about a girl who moves to her new house and wishes for a better life due to her "not interested in Coraline" parents and her cooky neighbors. She then discovers a magical door that leads her to her "other" home. Complete with "other" parents, neighbors, and the like. This is the world she's always wanted, but it turns out to be more than what she bargained for.

If you watch the movie soon or have seen the movie you (will) know what I am I talking about. However, I'm mainly using this movie tie-in to help boost my topic for today in a way. So, here we go.

In life, do you ever feel as though if you had one wish you could make it all better? One wish that would correct all the wrongs in your life and just make it worth living again? I have to say I have been in that situation before, so don't be ashamed if you have been on this same train of thought. Sometimes I have wanted to just wish it all away, or just wish I could get away from these people for once so I can breathe and feel better.

However, would that one wish just make some Robin Williams-ified genie say "Abracadabra" and make it all better? If you are answering yes and nodding your head along with the words I am typing then I suggest you listen closely to this next line. Are you ready for some writer-title-tie-in-magic? Well, here it goes: Be Careful What You Wish For.

Now, I understand that some problems seem impossible to solve. Believe me, I know. Some of those problems make us want to crawl into our beds, cover ourselves, and wish it all away. We wish that these things could go away by any means necessary, and of course we don't mean by ANY MEANS, however, we are so caught up in our emotions we don't think before we say anything. Things just slip out.

For example, let's say you had some serious drama with your significant other. You are furious and coming into your room storming, raging, and posting nasty things about them on Facebook. You are extremely livid. You crawl into bed after some weak attempts by friends to make you feel better and you just wish right before you fall asleep that you wouldn't have to deal with that person anymore, even though you still love them. The next morning you wake up to a voicemail saying that the person doesn't want to do this with you anymore, and he or she is breaking up with you.

You got your wish. Was it worth it?

What I'm getting at is throughout life we make many idle wishes. We wish for new video games, straight A's, love to strike us blindly whilst we are walking home from school, and many others. However, we see that these wishes barely come to fruition sometimes and we just lose all of our faith in wishes since we don't get the things we want. Then, when we do get our wishes, they always are things that seem good at first, but have drastic side effects in the end. Then, we are even deeper in our own troubles than we once were.

We need to really be extremely careful what we are wishing for, and I'm totally serious about this. Life has a sick sense of humor sometimes, and we end up just tempting it with all of our "wishes."

So, I hate to be morbid, but the next time you feel as though you could wish all of your problems away, please think twice, because I know I'd rather not have buttons sewn on my eyes.

I do apologize for the rather creepy and macabre blog entry. Have great weeks y'all!

~This is Deej, signing off.