A dream to come true.

Rub three times...

... and a Djinn leaves the lamp. Sanity today is a very rare commodity, something that I learn every day. People are given endless choices about everything. Really, everything. So if a certain individual doesn't get it's choices right, might end up frustrated or stressed. Not a pretty sight.
In time the frustration will become an addiction, and you will never ever pick anything right. You'll be dissapointed with this or that and eventually turn paranoid, but at the end of the day... do you really need all that?

The answer is a big fat NO.

 

Wishful thinking

Calling a Djinn from the lamp, you are usually given three wishes (with a few disclamers, hehe). One of my wishes is at least to be more straightforward with picking things that I don't really need. Surely, I can pick the things that I need with no problem, but what if you don't need something but want it anyways? Chances are, you'll spend money for it. The harder you earn it, you'll be less eager to spend it. Easy come - easy go. Just like the three wishes. Generally, you don't know what to do with a given opportunity, you just waste it and take it for granted.
A small example from life: since we're visiting a same caffe bar (it's in our office neighbourhood) on and on and time and time again, one morning we were given free drinks, compliments of the manager-slash-owner. And what did we pick? Instead of picking something fun, like beer, scotch or a coctail, we took aromatized sparkling water. Which is cheap. Pretty cheap. I cannot emphasize enough - very cheap. One should now think that the manager is using this philosophy to attract more customers by giving them rewards or bonuses, and using the surprise-effect and easy-come-easy-go mentality, to get away with, let's admit it, cheap advertizing.

What angers me most is that I fell for it. Dumbass.

That really insulted my intelligence.

 

How to use the wishes

First thing to do when given an opportunity is to think about it, and think real hard. Try to cover all the bases, have an exit strategy and work hard to get all the right stuff with near-perfect benefit for oneself. When presented with a choice, you don't just rush into it. Like falling for offers with cut prices for an already cheap commodity or wasting good scotch on the manager's tab. In some situations there's no room for mistakes. Especially since you don't live forever. That's why, for example, you are not given the benefit of asking Djinn for more wishes. Because then, you'll go against the shortcut-taking human psychology - which rushes into things. And it goes against the law of things - which is the conservation of energy.

Disney's Genie, voiced by Robin Willams

You cannot get something for nothing. The wishes are free, but we cannot really use them. You can only get away if you pay with Sanity and Wisdom, which people don't really posses in tandem. That's why a superinteligent person is never "sane". That why a "wise" person has no desire to gain.

Common sense is slowly losing it's meaning and followers. But the process is accelerating.

 

FAIL?

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