Things That I Want
(Cody Gohl's version) :
- I want someone to say beautiful things to.
- I want to look out my bedroom window and see a tree with thick green leaves.
- I want to wear deep red lipstick and kiss the people I love all over their shoulders.
- I want to learn how to poach an egg.
- I want an old man with long gray hair to teach me how to play the banjo.
- I want people to stop being stupid about marriage and gender and racial equality and realize that everyone deserves to feel safe and true to who they are on the inside.
- I want teachers to teach literature that isn’t all written by old white men.
- I want someone to reimagine the videogame Halo with ukuleles instead of guns.
- I want to find all the people who never got asked to slow dance at school dances and slow dance with them until their feet ache.
- I want to write with as much honesty as I can.
- I want open palms and nights of rain.
- I want months of spring.
- I want to watch movies with happy endings.
- I want to spend days on front porches sipping through jugs of wine.
- I want every day to be a little scary and a lot spicy.
- I want to have children with wild hair and wilder dreams.
- I want to tack packets of seeds to cork boards above my bed just in case I need a new beginning.
- I want to live with an open road in my heart.
- I want to get better at seeing the beauty in ordinary things.
- I want all of my yesterdays to be things worth remembering.
- I want to love and be loved.
- I want to know what you want and I want us to work together to turn this world into a place flooded with passion and electricity.
(my version) :
- I want to have an endless vacation in Narnia
- I want to have nice house, a job that I love, a loving family of mine.
- I want to see the world. Every countries. Every towns. Go around the world.
- I want to talk to amazing people around the world. I want them to share their ideas, their thoughts, their dreams, their views.
- I want to study in UK. With my own money or by scholarship.
- I want my parents proud of me.
- I want every wars in the world to be ended.
- I want to read every books in the world.
- I want to do Hajj.
- I want my true friends stay with me.