Wish ko lang
Wishes. Everybody loves to wish about something. Recently, I found myself thinking about simple things that I would want to do. Simple things that are, of course, doable, but for the moment is seemingly impossible to happen because of present rules and unspoken laws that are, well, present.
1.
I want to do a headstand! (I told you these things are simple) I've seen lots of cheerdancers from our highschool do it, and I want to do it myself! Even though it seems to make you dizzy and light-headed afterwards, I believe that when you do it, it's like you're Atlas for a moment, like you're carrying the world. Have you taken a picture of someone doing a headstand? Take one, invert it, and you'll see that he looks like he's carrying the floor, the ground, the Earth! It sounds silly, I know, but I think to feel that way, to feel like you're carrying the weight of everything on your hands, even just for a few seconds, feels ethereal. (I guess that's why headstanders feel dizzy afterwards, because of the mind-blowing task of holding the Earth in their hands that they do)
2.
I want to eat ice cream under the rain. i have never tried that! And it's crazy, it ups my lunacy points by half, so i guess it's a nice thing to do.
3.
I want to be pimple-free for a month. Haha!! All in the name of vanity. And ok, for cleanliness's sake. But since life doesn't really guarantee anyone that long a period, I guess I would be so happy to be absolutely "tigyawat"-free for a day. Not one, greasy, red dot on my face. And add straight flyawat-free hair, for good measure, and I'd be as happy as :D
4.
Go underwater diving. I don't mean snorkeling, I mean hard core, deep sea diving! Isn't it great? To see the mystical beauty of the world down below, to feel the calm and the silence of the deep. And if ever, by chance, I would love to sight cetaceans! Any cetacean, as long as they don't eat me up after I take a good look at them.
5.
Go to outer space! But since it's really far-fetched (and since i wished only "simple" things), I think I would love to settle for a telescope. Someday, I'm gonna own one! I promise myself that. But for now, I'd just have to settle for star-gazing at out terrace, shielding my eyes from the street lamp while looking for my birth constellation. :)
6.
Be able to witness a makahiya plant open up after it has closed its leaves up. Yes, almost everyone has seen the
Mimosa pudica close up, and I, for one, know the exact reason why and how it closes up that fast (I"m a biology student, beybeh!) but has anyone seen the species actually open up? Only a few, perhaps. Only a trickle of people who patiently wait for it to reveal it's shy beauty again. And I want to be one of those few people. I want to be able to patiently wait for beauty to show up, to uncurl from its prison and reveal its radiance once again.
7.
Amanpulo. I want Amanpulo to happen to me. For me, Amanpulo is not jus t a place, but an event, something that will happen that would deeply resemble paradise. And I call it Amanpulo, because it is my paradise. And I want my paradise to happen to me.
So that's it! 7 mundane but simple things that I wish I could do before... er... before things go out of control. Ok, fine. Things I want to do before I die (there!). Things i really intend to do, anytime soon. And I know these will happen, because I wished these things upon a star. And what does the song say about doing so?
When you wish upon a star
it makes no difference who you are
Anything your heart desires will come to you
If your heart is in your dreams
no request is too extreme
When you wish upon a star as dreamers do.