so..as i was walking down the hallway of ryerson, i saw an ad for the pageant "miss perfect 10". i always seem to be interested in it, and no, it's not because i think i could win, i just think it'd be fun to get dolled up and pretty. and i'm sure every girl has some sort of wish to be in one of those. anyways i read the requirments for it, and you need a talent. so..i thought long and hard about my talent...and that's when i realized that i had none. sure, i can strum a tune on the guitar, i can toot a tune on the sax...i can make pretty pictures and tell you the symptoms of a certain disease..but...that's not a talent. i can play volleyball...that's a skill. i can solve the rubics cube?...so what talent do i really have? there's nothing i can be really proud about...hmmm. anywho, just for kicks, i was watching the interviews for it, and one of the questions was "if you could cure anything, what would it be?"
and people said things like diabetes..or AIDS..which i agree, is increasingly present in our world...
but i thought about it..and here's my answer:
if i could cure anything in the world..i'd cure greed. People aren't happy because people always want more...more of this, more of that, whether it's something material or something abstract..people want more. more popularity, more status, more money. if i could cure greed, satisfaction with life is not far to follow.