Faust and Aladdin

That one saying…..

“Three wishes, to be exact. And ixnay on the wishing for more wishes. That’s all. Three. Uno, dos, tres. No substitutions, exchanges or refunds,” explained the genie to the street rat in the Disney film Aladdin. I’m sure we all wish we could get a hold of that lamp and have three wishes of our own. What would you wish for? A million dollars? A romantic date with your celebrity crush that is married and has who knows how many kids and would be above and beyond a miracle if it ever came true? World peace? Or maybe something simple like a pony ? Now, second guessing a wish is quite uncommon. When in the moment you truly don’t think twice about what you’re wishing for, I mean why bother when you can have a twenty bedroom house with: five pools, two basketball courts, three movie theaters, a bowling alley, seven personal chefs, two walk in closets for your shoes and three for your wardrobe, a diamond studded ceilings, gold toilets, a mirror that tells you how beautiful you are, four pink six door hummers to be exact lol, a private jet, yacht and an island named after you?? Little do we know what loop holes come with this wish. Actually little did Aladdin and Faust know what came with theirs.

“I shall with pleasure, without more ado,/Wholly devote myself to you./You shall have my company,/And if you are satisfied,/I shall be your servant, always at your side,”(Faust lines 1644-1648). Basically Mephistopheles is Faust’s genie (evil voice: Muahahahaha). Faust desired to be with a young and innocent girl named Gretchen. Aladdin wished to be a prince so he can marry the Arabian Princess also known as Jasmine. To their benefit well at least at the time their wishes came true when Faust was made younger and thus appealing and had an intimate night with Gretchen and also when Aladdin turned into a prince. Of course this would have never happened without the help of their genies. Come on guys your pretty lame to need some ones help to woo a girl, simply as our generation would say, “they got no game.” ;)

Now Aladdin, you fool didn’t you know that scumbag Jafar would expose you’re not a prince, kidnap Jasmine and become a prince himself? Or Faust, didn’t you know that your one night of intimacy might get Gretchen pregnant, have her put in prison and get her mom and brother killed? I mean come on guys this was all pretty obvious, what were you thinking?! Not only did what they wish for have the girl’s locked up behind bars or in a life size hour glass, but it also had them run to their rescue. Now don’t you wish you didn’t wish for what you wished for? Hehe

Simply, we all wish. Wishing is an enchanting and it stirs our imaginations and ambitions. We either wish for the achievable things in life or just the complete impossible ones. However, what we wish for may not always be as we think an advantage to us. Our yearnings may entail consequences that we never saw coming. Therefore, as I watched Aladdin and read Faust, I wished I could be there and tell them that one saying, “be careful what you wish for.”