A Wish for a Day

You know what I wish for a day? Not that I could escape my life. I think that I've been doing enough of that lately all on my own thankyouverymuch!

I don't wish for a vacation to Greece...well, at least not right now. That is a wish for a future day.

I don't wish to lose that last ten...er maybe twenty...pounds. Not today, anyway.

I don't even wish for a million dollars at this very moment.

I told you, I don't want to escape my life. I don't want to hide, and I don't want someone to magically fix my problems, issues, and ailments. No, not today. Today I want to fix them myself.

So what is my wish for the day? I want to wake up feeling like Wonder Woman. That is my wish. Sounds like a futile wish? Because it is probably more likely that I would wake up on a beach in Greece, twenty pounds lighter and a million dollars richer than it is that I would wake up with super bionic powers and an invisible airplane all my own. Not to mention the cool costume, tiara and all. But I think I still want to be blonde. Because let's face facts. I look better as a blonde.

But you'll notice, I didn't say I want to be Wonder Woman. I didn't. I said I wanted to wake up feeling like Wonder Woman. And there is a difference. As nice as it would be to have some sort of super power, I don't really want that. I'm not delusional, after all. What I really want is to be able to face my problems head on without any sort of fear. I want to face those things that I must face and take them on. I may not be able to solve them perfectly. I may not be able to solve them all in one day, either. I just want the courage to face them. Because most days, lately, I feel like running in the other direction.

As you can imagine, that's not working out so well for me. SURPRISE!!!

Where did this idea come from, anyway, you might ask? I mean, as long as we are wishing here, why not dream big? Here is why I wish to feel like Super Woman. Our dear Relief Society president was teaching a lesson once. In the meeting, she talked about how hard a particular time in her life was. She was a young mother, I believe, sick, and her husband was out of town. She said that for a six month period of her life, she felt like she was Super Woman. She felt like she could get up and get moving and go go go go go. And she said it was awesome. I can only imagine. She had the strength to face the challenges of raising young children, being sick and having a husband gone for work all the time.

I guess I've just been thinking a lot about that. The fantasies are nice. And isn't it so wonderful when you get a surprise gift that you weren't expecting? But I don't think that anyone is going to pay my student loan debt, or purchase a car for me, or give me enough money to move out and live on my own. I don't think I'm going to Greece any time in the foreseeable future. And that is just fine. In fact, it is more than fine. Because I want to be able to solve these issues and move on with my life. I want to work for it.

Everyone dreams of the easy life or the perfect life. But there is no such thing. Money doesn't make problems disappear. A trip to Greece might be nice for a week...or probably two. (Hey, I mean it is Greece, and if you are going to go, I mean, GO! Am I right?) But the trip isn't going to suddenly make my life a perfect one. Nope, that just isn't the way it works. I have to solve the problems. I have to make my life what I want it to be.

So, I'm sending this out there into the great universe...let me wake up feeling like Wonder Woman...tomorrow, the next day, and for the next five million days. Let me wake up feeling like Wonder Woman!!!