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i_love_freddie) wrote2016-02-26 09:57 pm
i_love_freddie) wrote2016-02-26 09:57 pm
LJ Idol Friends and Rivals - week 11: Monkey's Paw - Wishes gone wrong
If you had one wish – what would it be?
Childhood is all about wishes. “Blow out your candles and make a wish,” “Be good and Santa might bring you that new game you wished for”, “Speak to the fairies at the bottom of the garden and make a wish only they can hear”, “Say a wish out loud and the wind will carry it for you.”
So innocent.
No one ever said anything about a price. But for every wish that is heard and granted, there is something taken in return. Balance – that is the way of things. That price could be anything; maybe something you don't even realise that you need until it is no longer there.
Everyone in this world has something that they want. How many have made a wish casually out loud, not thinking about what they have said. And what if the price of granting that wish was the life of someone you cared for? A treasured belonging? Youth? Beauty?
What about if what was taken in return was your soul?
One wish. No rules, no restrictions. Next time you go to blow out those candles on your birthday cake, stop and think about it for a second.
What would you wish for? What would you be willing to sacrifice in return?
Childhood is all about wishes. “Blow out your candles and make a wish,” “Be good and Santa might bring you that new game you wished for”, “Speak to the fairies at the bottom of the garden and make a wish only they can hear”, “Say a wish out loud and the wind will carry it for you.”
So innocent.
No one ever said anything about a price. But for every wish that is heard and granted, there is something taken in return. Balance – that is the way of things. That price could be anything; maybe something you don't even realise that you need until it is no longer there.
Everyone in this world has something that they want. How many have made a wish casually out loud, not thinking about what they have said. And what if the price of granting that wish was the life of someone you cared for? A treasured belonging? Youth? Beauty?
What about if what was taken in return was your soul?
One wish. No rules, no restrictions. Next time you go to blow out those candles on your birthday cake, stop and think about it for a second.
What would you wish for? What would you be willing to sacrifice in return?
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If this were how wishes truly worked, when they were granted, then yes-- you're wreaking havoc with every one of them, and who knows what price is being paid? :O
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What would I wish for? Given for the possibility, I generally wish for goodness in all. I reckon that would come with a steep price tag. But if it meant no strife or war, I might be willing to make whatever sacrifice required.
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In a nutshell: Something very, very bad happened to me in my past that I wished had never happened, and it so shaped my outlook on life that for decades I thought I could never get over the memory... and so I often wished I could go back in time and do something different so that I could avoid that pain.
The thing is, looking back on the incident in question, I know with absolute certainty that if I had somehow avoided the bad thing in question, someone I care about would have paid the price in my place... and knowing that I had someone close to me suffer in my stead would have made the memory so, *SO* much worse.
An excellent, thought-provoking piece. Thanks so much for posting this!
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