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Be careful what you ask for because there is a sacrifice

April 24, 2012, Tuesday, Day 24 ~ 30-Day Blogging Challenge prompt is "What are two skills you would love to have and why."

I would like to have several new skills, the problems is that I am not sure I am willing to pay the price that they would require. Everything new skill, attribute, or talent a person acquires has a price or requires a sacrifice. The skills I would like to have today (if this question were ask another time I might want different skills) would require tremendous sacrifices. I do not know what that price (sacrifice) is now because that is something I would not find out until I got those skills, but I do know they require a sacrifice.

Now that I have revealed my well-developed wet blanket skill, you know I would not ask for it. The skills I would wish for at present are (1) the skill to stop time whenever I wanted for as long as I found necessary and (2) the skill to transport myself any place in the universe instantly carrying anything my strength would allow.

Why would I want the ability to stop time? The answer to that is easy. I never have enough time in the day or the week to accomplish everything I need to accomplish. If I could stop time, for at least one day a week I could get a lot more done. I have not figured out what price this skill would require, but it would be something really big and costly, but not in dollars or any other currency in the know universe.

Why would I want the ability to transport myself any place instantly carrying stuff? I could transport myself to the supermarket, buy what I needed, and then transport myself home with my purchases. Of course, this is a dangerous skill for someone (like me), for someone who is directionally challenged. Therefore, I can guess the price this one would require. I would get to the store all right, but when I went to transport myself back to my house I would end up in an underground city on Mars or a planet orbiting Wolf 359 and be unable to transport myself back to Earth until the next day.

Once I received those skills, I would accept the price. After all, I did walk into this with open eyes. I may not have known precisely what I was getting myself into, but I did know there would be a cost, which I may not like.

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