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One Wish: A X-mas Story Printable Version PRINTABLE VERSION
by Zorica Vukovic, Serbia Mar 12, 2004
Peace & Conflict   Short Stories

  

This story is dedicated to the global action that takes place each New Years Eve at midnight; it's wishing one wish - "May peace and love bless the world" before all other, personal wishes for the New Year. It's already happening around the globe, and taking participation in the development of this action is to raise awareness and focus on that wish not only at that moment but all 365/6 days of the year, each year.

Next year is going to be a better year, maybe even the best year!

May 2004, the year of the Ape, by Chinese horoscope, bring a chance for new humanity! Are we going to become more flexible and innovative? Is the world, on global level, going to change into a more playful, more forgiving, less dangerous and generally more friendly and interesting place to live in? What do we think when we say that we want a better world - tomorrow? What does the word “better” mean? The year of the friendly and sensitive Ape may help us discover our true, simple wishes and even may help us achieve new levels and fresh standards of being happy and – making the others happy, or to be more precise, feeling better and making the others feel happier than before.

Waiting for the winter to trigger this change seems strange as it is the period of calmness, inactivity and the death, symbolically speaking. It would be better if New Years would begin somewhere in spring, like it is the case with the Chinese New Year starting at the beginning of February, shifting from date to date each year, but always getting right there – at the beginning of a new circle of birth. Each time new expectations, new promises, new hopes and new plans - which might as well all be old and even inherited from previous generations’ tradition – are gathering from all sides and focusing to one date to be articulated with the new strength and new meaning, empowering both the wishes, wishers and worshipers, inaugurating a new season of life content, new page in history books. How much celebrity and joy will it bring no one can tell until the whole year passes and closes its gates opened, at the last moment, so tightly just for one more option: the next year to come.

The New Year always comes as a new possibility, the carrier of all unsettled and unsorted issues, the promise of all promises, even of those that everyone else stopped believing in, and the ruler of the immediate future, sometimes so much more important than the Eternity. That’s why we should think about our immediate future like we think about Eternity. To all those who care about it – the daily routine would become more meaningful and its practicing ritual would lead to personal enlightenment. To the others that do not care for Eternity neither the immediate future would seem appealing and important. They would turn and toss their daily actions and choices to be cast by four winds and, with God’s help, would sail easily wherever they might go, since – having no goal is no sin. It’s easier to go and feel you belong anywhere if you don’t have a particular place where you really want to be.

There would always be the third ones, the ones that are neither heading to somewhere, nor failing to get it right what exactly they should do on this planet at the moment. They, like us, the observers, would participate in life by giving comments, understanding, writing notes, telling stories and singing songs, looking at, and waiting for a voice and a smile of old and new friends, exchanging messages to and from any friendly community to communicate and feed on as many feed backs we can get.

For a Happy New Year may a Happy New Feedback
Come as the most beautiful and joyful gift from all sides!
Let us all make one single wish at midnight:
Wish for World Peace from the heart!
MAY PEACE AND LOVE BLESS ALL!





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Zorica Vukovic


Zo belongs to a generation of average middle-aged intellectuals who grew up in a unique environment of the country known as the former Yugoslavia, which shrank in the last decade of the 20th century, divided into a few new states through civil war and finally dissolved into a union of states known as Serbia and Montenegro. She writes from her early youth, neither living of it, nor even living for it, just observing and meditating upon various issues of life and humanity. Her totemistic values are: love, creativity, ethics and the daily improvement of communications and actions on a global level.
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