Shopping spree!

What a treat it is to be able to pick out who I want to be (and no I don’t want anyone random for I have the perfect picture). I am very much aware that to achieve balance in this world, not a single person can be said to have it all so I hope no one minds that I’ll do a little shopping and bake the perfect person. Please follow the list to the letter.

1. A brain like Hermoine Granger. (fictitious characters? this is how we want to start the list?). Oh yes, everything starts from the mind and you need the very best when you have first choice. But if you find she has put spells around it, then my sister’s will do. She seems to be doing well in that department.

2. A voice like Jenny Lind. She’s real I’m sure but if that won’t do Loren Allred will do and we’ll belt out Never Enough for every singing competition and get away with it. (Or we’ll keep eating bananas till we can confidently sing outside the bathroom.)

3. A smile like Monseratt Mendoza (who allowed you to make this list?!!! Now you are adding characters from all those soap dramas you watch in secret?) definitely one like that. Her smile plays in my head when I read about smiles that melt the heart. If fiction refuses to cross over, you can always coax the dimpled smile off your little cousin.

4. Friends like the Jeremy character in my head (this is getting out of hand and it’s just ingredient 4! You can’t write characters only you know about it). I want to have an overflowing of friends too. If that is in short supply, we can take that from that girl in my contact list. You know the one, she’s always putting them out for display.

5. Talent like J.K Rowling. (you are sure, beyond sure that no one else tops the list?) All threats to upseat a queen can’t be taken lightly that’s why those that may compare are long dead. (And Jackson Biko? You know he is your new standard!) But what do I know? There are great writers out there giving their best in obscurity. Just look at this platform.

6. A fashion sense like Park Min-Young (you do know that as an actress, she has a wardrobe designer right?) That’s right, with the world being a global village now, no one is safe from this list! Allow me to blow the trumpet for South Korean fashion though.

7. A booty like... (PEACHES! children might read this. Nothing to see here people, move on)

BONUS INGREDIENT. Having a boyfriend like Elias Veturius (and I thought we had closed the chapter on fiction) except that where I left off, he seems to be hanging out in the ‘underworld’. And we all know he is bound by that mantra ‘Duty First, Unto Death’. If he won’t do, I’ll have to wait patiently for my real life Prince Charming who may or may not be lost on his way.

8. Courage like Maximus the General who became a gladiator, the gladiator who...(no need to quote that line from the movie, they get it). Wouldn’t it be epic to go out in a fight like that, against a tyrant (think your president) and not the inglorious way you plan to die.

9. Faith like Job (now we are getting somewhere). To look pain in the face and refuse to die till you see the Lord’s redemption. To hang on to your innocence in the presence of holiness. What a relationship! And who are you without that!

10. Wealth like Solomon...or Mansa Musa (ah! I was wondering when the money would factor in. And you pick out wealth and not wisdom! Peaches, you embarrass me.)

11... well this list is endless, the grass is always going to appear greener else where. And nothing here is set in stone as better makes itself known. But I will say this, a thousand changes could be made to my existence, but in whatever form, I want the charming idiots I call family exactly the same. I’d give my life for theirs in a heartbeat.