Achieving Serenity

The Most Desirable Man on Earth

Delayed gratification

I watched a movie called "The Secret" and will admit I became a little obsessed with it.

My life was going nowhere and the messages I heard in the film connected so many dots in my head. Ever since being bullied as a child, I starting to willingly believe that I was less than other people. I went thirty years of my life with negative subconscious thinking and was just expecting my big break to magically show up at my doorstep.

The movie was saying I could have anything I imagined. I took it as far as I possibly could, and it started with a shoebox. I put it on the top shelf of my bookshelf and spent the next few weeks manifesting a fairy.

The fairy would allow me any wishes I wanted in an instant. I wholeheartedly believed I could manifest this fairy with my thoughts and was already beginning to experience my life with the fairy present.

It would take two weeks. That's what my soul was telling me, and there wasn't an ounce of doubt in my mind that the fairy would be inside the shoebox after it had completely finished manifesting.

I walked up to my bookshelf with calm confidence and reached up to my shoebox without hesitation. The fairy came flying out.

"Hello, Kevin. You shall be given any and every wish your heart and mind desires. I must warn you, sir. 100% of the millions of people I have served have all made the same final wish. What shall your first wish be?"

I wished for $50 million in cash. At light speed, the piles of cash instantly appeared at my footsteps, and I was not shocked as this is what I had already visualized. I now had visual proof that the messages they were telling me in "The Secret" were true.

I wanted to be famous and loved by everybody, and the next day The Los Angeles Times published a six-page article about me beginning on their front page. It was about my Facebook posts and how thought-provoking and innovative they were, "covering the grounds of genius." People began worshiping me and sending me messages by the millions seeking my advice.

Local man Kevin Dooley has proven his well-qualified seat as the modern-day Martin Luther King Jr. His most recent post 'If I read one more post about Finland educational system... not everybody in the US public schools are WHITE!' has opened the eyes of communities everywhere, sparking genuine amicability among corporations and entities who were once rivals. For the first time in centuries, it appears we have found our living savior.

I spent the next ten years in the worst misery I've ever felt in my entire life. I couldn't go anywhere without getting swarmed by people treating me like a god. I always wanted to be a rock star my whole life, and I got that dream. But I wasn't even trying and didn't even feel the motivation to get better. My music wasn't even good. If I'm being honest, it appeared I was the only one on Earth who actually knew I was an untalented piece of shit.

I went up to my bookshelf and the fairy sat awaiting my next wish.

"I'm sorry, I'm stupid. You've been great, but I wish for everything to be as it was before," I said.

"And you shall join the 100% of my previous wishers," the fairy said. "Anyhow. I needn't worry. Man can't make any wish that isn't stupid." I heard a gust of wind as my vision went blank before I found myself in bed, just finishing up my first watch of "The Secret."

When things were handed to me, I didn't grow as a person. I became depressed and suicidal. I had no more challenges in life, and no matter what I did, people loved me. I needed the true gratification of earning things. I got all of my wishes at the drop of a dime, and I hated every minute of it. Things aren't worth anything if you do not properly work for them.