On some days — or maybe during some weeks — or months or years — okay, during some lives, things aren’t going great. They once motored smoothly along but then the engine of their success started burping foul odors, stumbling and hesitating, barely responding when we called for more power. Maybe even that’s a dream, that your life never found its mojo. You reach a point when you think, I wish there was something or some way for things to be made better, some magical force or power that can fix it all.
We’ve had many stories, myths, legends, movies, television shows and novels about one who can do such a thing. One such legend, about a genie in a bottle and an astronaut, made it to America’s small screens in the 1960s: ‘I Dream of Jeannie’. Hum it to yourself while you traverse your daily travails.
Maybe it’ll help. Maybe a genie will show up and offer you three wishes so you can change the world – or even just a moment.
Michael Seidel, writer 
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