dear genie,

I've been thinking about tweeting this for two weeks. but the 140 character limit makes it hard to properly express any sort of emotion.

If I had three wishes:

1. I would use the first to ensure financial stability in my life. I mean, I could end up marrying a man who wants to be a school teacher. And nothing else. Don't get me wrong, I have thought about being a teacher as well, I'm not saying its a poorly chosen occupation. I just mean that when I have kids, I am going to want to stay home and raise them. How would I do that, and live the lifestyle I want to live when we are living off one measly paycheck a month?  I just know that as soon as I am financially secure, my future will be less stress and more fun.

2. My second wish is something that I've always wanted to do. I guess it's the nurturing, motherly side of myself talking here, but I would wish for the ability to literally take away everyone's pain. Physical, emotional, spiritual, any type. I guess that's kind of why I've wanted to be a doctor my entire life. Emotional and spiritual suffering are feelings that cant be fixed by others. They are internal wars. People can temporarily make you feel better, but really the pain just comes back. and you may think that I want to take away pain because of all the people hurting and mourning the loss of Sydney Bruning and Parker Allred. Yes, I would like to look at all of those people and tell them it's going to be ok, and have them believe me, but it goes much further than that. I want to take away all the haunting thoughts that every teenager/adult/child has about themselves. I want to take away all of anger we hold toward others, for petty things. I don't want my friends to think they are worthless. It breaks my heart to be on the phone with someone and to have them tell me that they think so little of themselves. Especially when I think so highly of them. I think that we are walking miracles. We all have our own story, no one has had an easy, breezy, beautiful [covergirl] life for the entirety of their existence. Everyone hits a low at one point or another. I just want to make that low a little less dreadful.

3. My third wish is undecided. I would want to save it for a rainy day when I absolutely need something crazy. and I would like knowing that I could do whatever I wanted and whatever point in time.

xx danielle