Sunday, June 8, 2008

Composition Challenge - Want vs. Need

I've never done one of these composition challenges from Little White Liar before, but seeing as how there's very little compositioning in this one, I think I can handle it.

Here's how it goes:
Make a list of 5-10 things you want. Make them things you personally want for you (no Miss America "World Peace" shenanigans). Then think of one thing you need. You can't already have it, because really, who do you think you are? Just rubbing your self-contentment in everyone's gaping life-holes.

I want:

1) A personal assistant to come organize all of my crap in these moving boxes for me. And even though there appears to be nowhere for it to possibly go, she (or he, yes I think maybe he...) will magically find the room for it. You know that huge bin that's full of nothing but photographs? You can start with that. Don't forget the captions when you put them in books.

2) For Coca-Cola to be good for me.

3) To be able to slow down time. (Especially the aging process.)

4) The gift of teleportation. Because I have a large percentage of my friends living far away, and it would really be more convenient for me this way - if I could just pop in on them whenever I want to - even if it's just for an afternoon. I'd also need for them to be able to use this gift too, so that they can come see me, and so that we can actually get together more than two at a time. And now that my sister and niece are moving away, I want this more than ever. How am I supposed to give the world the gift of molding this young girl into another me if I'm not around? So one of you smart people get started on this invention, ok?
I read this same idea over here, and even though it's very copy-worthy, I have actually expressed this wish before. If I hadn't of already thought of it, I probably would have copied it anyway. (Brilliant minds, they think alike.)

5. The perfect living arrangement. That somehow won't threaten me with bankruptcy.

6. Fewer regrets.

7. A job that seems worth all the time I put into it.

8. A sense of direction. (And I don't just mean direction in my life, although that would be a good one, too - I mean I don't want to get lost in my own home town. Or my own neighborhood. Or in my own workplace.)

9. To be able to sing. Really really well.

10. Longer falls and springs and shorter summers. (I sweat a lot. It's not pretty.)

I need:

1) purpose

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