What I want(ed)…

My very own wish list!

One rainy afternoon in fall, I sat down at the kitchen table and started writing a list of things I wanted. Little things and big things, some to get sooner, some to get later. In the end, I had filled 6 pages. Wow, what a fucking lot, LOL

Now, five years later, I can tick off almost everything on that list.

 

Here’s what I jotted down that day:

 

I want to…

 

- finish writing my book (check)

- publish it (check)

- make a living with writing at the age of 35 (check – and I’m only 32 now )

- go on a journey once every year (check)

- have privacy (check)

- live in a house without any neighbors somewhere close to a lake (due, but I’m working on that one)

- go to California again (due)

- go to England (check 3 times)

- have an English pen pal (check and lost him again)

- make a name with my books (check)

- see one of my books as a movie one day (due)

- touch a dolphin (oh check! )

- have lots of money, a dog, and two horses (check for the money, the rest didn’t come)

- be on an old pirate ship (due)

- be able to say, “Hey Mom, I’m coming over for a cup of coffee” (they live 200 miles away, but I even did that once, so check)

- try on wedding dresses (check)

- not get married until he really wants it, too (I’m married now )

- have more time (check)

- have long hair (check and cut again)

- spend more time with my friends (check)

- have the sixth sense (sometimes I think I do)

- be a little more disciplined (I swear I’m working on it! Tomorrow)

- lose weight (check)

- be athletic (check)

- have really cool clothes (check)

- there to be more in this world (it is for me)

- be connected to earth (due)

- talk to angels (check)

- get answers from angels (check)

- see my son grow up healthy (he’s going to have a brain surgery this summer, which might stop his seizures eventually)

- be healthy (I’m feeling okay, that’s good enough for now)

- be able to be happy about small things (check)

- pass my book-keeping exam (check)

- get respect (check)

- trust and be trusted (check)

- be able to eat without getting fat (do you know how this works? I don’t)

- have a good and strong relationship (check)

- have an open and trustworthy relationship (check)

- not feel lonely when I have some time for myself at last (check)

- be egoistical and enjoy it (check)

- be understood without needing to say much (check)

- explode when I can’t put my thoughts into words (I never exploded in the past, but one can never know what’s happening in the future)

- get new shoes (check)

- have my very own and nice place to write (check)

- make someone happy (check)

- have beautiful fingernails (check)

- be home more (check)

- have a cake (check)

- live in a different time (well, that’s working only in my books)

- be a princess (sigh…)

- get inspired (check)

- dream of flying (check)

- have talent (I think I do have a bit of it, right?)

- be brave (check)

- be beautiful for him (check)

- be mysterious (don’t know)

- meet Orlando Bloom and Harrison Ford (due)

- be able to do something that no one else can do (check)

- not panic when I have to drive a car (due)

- not panic when I’m ride a horse (check)

- hug a tree (check)

- meet the right people (check)

- deeper friendships (check)

- be someone who people can tell tales about (check)

- have warm feet (due)

- have someone to talk to with the same interests as me (check)

- have a wedding by the sea (can’t even say due, ‘cause I’m married and it didn’t happen in the Caribbean)

- have a whole damn lot of imagination (check)

Closing, I have to say I really love how my life turned out. Then again, I never gave up, no matter what others thought about it.

 

Happy looooong weekend, everyone!

Piper