Be Careful What You Wish for

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Be careful what you wish for, for it might just come true Be careful what you wish for, unless all you want to keep is you Be careful what you wish for, for you may not know what you have got Be careful what you wish for, for you may lose it on the spot. Be careful what you wish for. A phrase that I always use now, to quote to myself and to others. After a life-changing experience that leaves such a heavy memory for me to carry forever, what I hope for others is they will not go through such a thing. Just one wish, unintentionally made in the throes of emotion, could change someone’s life for all time. I remember that dark and gloomy night on the 20th of November 2011. I was watching The Twilight Saga, a movie directed by Bill Condon on my Apple laptop in my room. Suddenly I heard the sound of the engine of my father’s Mercedes Benz. My family had just come back from a dinner at the Palm Garden Hotel. Not long after that, there was chaos in the living room and I heard my father’s stern and fierce voice scolding my eldest brother, despite the walls separating us. Actually, it was not a new thing for me because my family always fought even on the smallest of matters. I decided to go and see what had happened. What I heard was my father scolding my brother because he humiliated my father at the dinner they had attended. I was wondering what it was exactly that my brother did to get on my father’s nerves. I really hated my home. When my friends talked about how happy they were when they spent time together with their family at home, I always got irritated. I have no such feelings towards my family members. After the fight, my father left the house abruptly. He started his car’s engine and drove away. My siblings were badmouthing my father and that was why I was so fed up. Harmony never existed in my family’s dictionary. They kept criticizing each other. The
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