WriteOn! 2024
Professional Form
Winning Essays 2015
1st Place - Brunilda Kondi, Tirana
Topic: A scientist shows you his latest invention: a machine that lets you create your own dream world. If you are hooked up to the machine, you will fall asleep and dream that you are in your ideal world, but you will never wake up. The scientist gives you the chance to use his machine. Do you use it? Why or why not?
I challenge the scientist to come out of the lab, forget the dream world, and join my ideal world, unhooked.
Follow me; you don’t need to close you eyes—my ideal world guarantees living, feeling, giving (make sure you are open to receiving). Let’s wake up on our own planet earth, whether it is in the most developed city or a remote place in my Albania. We only need to make sure we wake up grateful to have been given another day to live. Living in my real-ideal world has colors, smells, sounds, shapes, patterns. We need to go down a flight of stairs. Knowing we can; we need to make sure we greet all the people realizing they’re there, living their ideal worlds.
Hey, scientist, did you make that phonecall to your family? Did you tell your neighbor you’ll be there for that collecting the elevator contribution? Have you planned time for a chat with your cousin who just got out of the hospital? And, your best friend’s father’s funeral is at 4 p.m. My real-ideal day has 24 hours that can fit all you want. Take the challenge, you should know how. You can only follow if you truly, deeply feel you can smile, laugh, cry, weep, sob, hug, be there and then move on.
Almost done: find a flaw in my real-ideal world. Next, think about how it can be fixed. Make a pitch—what is it you’re giving to get it straight? Does it come from the heart? Can you prove it? How? This is a common day in my ideal world, the one I have: I live, feel, try to give. Did you do that? What did you receive (remember I told you to be open to receiving?!) How can you measure that?
Now, can you go back to your lab and invent a machine that measures how one lives, feels, gives and balance that with what has been received? Until then, no thank you; I have already invented my ideal world! It is the quotidien!