Present I Want

If you could get one present this year, what would it be?

 

For the past few years, I’ve had trouble figuring out my birthday and Christmas wishes. Whenever friends and family ask me, "What do you want for your birthday?" or "What do you want for Christmas?" I just could not answer, or I would reply, "What I really want, money can’t buy." The following song pretty much describes my wish list.

 

My Grown-Up Christmas List

By Kelly Clarkson, Amy Grant, and Monica

 

Do you remember me

I sat upon your knee

I wrote to you

With childhood fantasies

 

Well, I’m all grown up now

And still need help somehow

I’m not a child

But my heart still can dream

 

So here’s my lifelong wish

My grown up Christmas list

Not for myself

But for a world in need

 

No more lives torn apart

That wars would never start

And time would heal all hearts

And everyone would have a friend

And right would always win

And love would never end

This is my grown up Christmas list

 

As children we believed

The grandest sight to see

Was something lovely

Wrapped beneath our tree

Well heaven surely knows

That packages and bows

Can never heal

A hurting human soul

 

No more lives torn apart

That wars would never start

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And everyone would have a friend

And right would always win

And love would never end

This is my grown up Christmas list

 

What is this illusion called the innocence of youth

Maybe only in our blind belief can we ever find the truth(there’d be)

 

No more lives torn apart

That wars would never start

And time would heal all hearts

And everyone would have a friend

And right would always win

And love would never end, oh

This is my grown up Christmas list

This is my grown up Christmas list

 

Money can’t buy world peace, the end of suffering, perfection, cooperation, not competition, and friendship with everyone in the world. Dollars and coins can provide almost only material things, which I don’t really care for anymore.

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