The requirements is in the appendix.
While travelling alone in the desert wilderness you suddenly become stranded when your ATV breaks down. You are a good three days walk back to civilization and you don’t have any food and have already run out of water. This is because you are a dumbass. Also, your cell phone battery is dead so no calling for help. This is because you’ve taken too many selfies.
Anyway, toward the end of the second day, quite literally dying of dehydration, you discover a discarded can of Keystone Lite. Miraculously, among the hundreds of others along the trail, this one is unopened!
But when you pop the top, instead of a refreshing liquid approximating beer, out comes a magical genie, the Genie Of Multiple Choices.
He tells you that in exchange for setting him free, he will now offer you series of choices to plot out the rest of your life. But there is, of course, a catch, because that’s the way genies roll. First, he will return you to safety only after you have answered all of his questions. You must only choose from the options he offers. Upon returning to safety, you will forget this entire transaction. Also, he wants his answers in writing, typed and edited (read and follow the Discussion Question Guidelines). And so it begins. He asks you the following: Just answer two out of the first three and the last one.
Question One:
a) Sometime in the next year you will meet the love of your life, your true soul mate. At first sight you will know this person is “the one”. Yes, even if you are in a relationship already. This person is so hot your eyeballs bleed. Like Ryan Gosling hot. Gal Gadot hot. Or whatever you think is hotter than hot. This person will love you unconditionally and think you are equally hot. You will both fall madly, passionately, intensely, in love. You will be happy in every way you have ever imagined. And then, suddenly, exactly two years after you have met this person, he/she will die in mysterious accident involving sky diving, a great white shark and a can of Sour Cream and Onion Pringles. You will be emotionally devastated, of course, for years, and try as you might in other subsequent relationships, you will always really only love this person and avoid Pringles.
b) Or you never really meet this perfect person and will live a pretty ok life with a so-so, second-choice, runner-up kind of spouse. It’s not like the person beats you, but it’s the kind of relationship all your friends will talk about behind your back, saying “Man, why do they stay together?” The sex will be “meh”, but, you know, you’ll never really be motivated to find someone better, although you’ll always know there probably is someone else out there.
Which do you choose? Why would you make that choice?
Question Two:
a) You can have the most rocking body you can imagine. If you want to be super hot, you can be super hot (not to imply that you aren’t, my sensitive little millenial!). Ryan Gosling or Gal Gadot hot. Or if you want to be super athletic, boom, you go it. If you just want to be super healthy, yep, we can do that, too. But here’s the catch. You will suffer from debilitating bouts of depression. You will, in other words, spend, let’s say, at least 1/3 of your life clinically depressed, and no, you cannot simply wash away that depression with magic pills, because the genie is not an idiot.
b) Or you can be paralyzed from the chest down and thus made to use a wheelchair. Of course you might ask the genie “but will I be happy?” And he will answer “that choice will be yours.”
Which do you choose? Why would you make that choice?
Question Three:
a) You can be really, really damn good at whatever you want. Like Queen Elizabeth great. Peyton Manning great. Louis Pasteur great. Donald Trump great!! But you will never be happy in love. You will never marry or have a significant, long-term relationship. You will never have children. You will not be close to your parents or siblings. Maybe you can have a cat or, if you're good, a dog, just before you die. Alone.
b) Or you can get knocked up or doing the knocking up and have to drop out of college and go back to hicksville to work at the local Les Schwab for the rest of your life. You will never travel outside of Idaho, unless you count Spokane, which doesn’t count. But you will be happily married and have some awesome kids and live near your parents and siblings (if you want to).
Which do you choose? Why would you make that choice?
Question Four:
What do your choices, and why you made such choices, tell you about your values? According to these choices and explanations, what do you seem to believe will make you happy?
