Dear Mark,
I’m going to tell you about a very different incident in my life. We went to a museum as a school trip when I was going to high school. There was a lamp in the museum that caught my attention. I wanted to take a picture of the lamp. I forgot the flash on. Since the lamp is sensitive to light, a genie came out of it. The genie took me outside the museum without being seen by anyone. We started talking there. The genie said, ‘Ask whatever you wish from me.’ So I asked, ‘How many wishes do I have?’. ‘Except infinite wishes, infinite genie, the endless lamp is not acceptable and and you have 3 wishes’ said the genie. “I’m going to ask you a question,” I said. ‘Ask,’ said the genie. I said, ‘Can I carry you with me and insert you into and out of your lamp whenever I want? ‘Yes,’ said the genie. I put the genie in the lamp and put it in my bag. At that time, alarms were ringing in the museum, and the security guards were looking for the lamp. I ran quickly and put my bag on the school bus. The teacher took us to the school bus. I secretly made my first wish on the bus. ‘I want you to leave your lamp and live in me.’ I said. The genie granted my wish, and it has been my inner voice throughout my life and a friend I can take anywhere. I made my next wish when I became an adult. I thought deeply about this wish. And what I wished for was to be very intelligent and to know almost everything. I would be famous when people noticed my intelligence. People would ask me things they didn’t know. I would earn good money that way. After 5 years, I became richer than most football players. I had a beautiful wife and lots of smart kids. I made my third and final wish when I was 35 years old. ‘I wished to be able to play all instruments professionally, to have a sense of rhythm and metronome, the ability to follow and read notes, knowledge of notes good enough to compose a song, a beautiful voice, in short, a sense of music. so that I could add fame to my reputation and leave a lot of things to future generations. I would be able to discover many theories and concepts that could not be discovered in the universe, many musical pieces, many undiscovered and secret information in many fields such as mathematics, language, physics, chemistry, biology and music and transfer more things to future generations.
Yes my friend, it was a story that I did not tell you and that I hope will remain a secret between us. Tell me stories like this, please.
With love
Emir