○  if i had a magic wish  ○

    honorable judges, ladies and gentlemen,
    the fairytale of aladdin has always been my childhood favorite. i was mesmerized by how aladdin used his three magic wishes. as a small girl, i dreamed of having the magic wishes to go wherever i wanted to go and see whatever i wanted to see. as you can probably guess, i haven't found my genie in the lamp yet, however, i have found something just as exciting and it has made marvelous changes in not only my life, but the lives of all human-beings. it is called technology.
    i still remember how my father told me about his childhood back in those days when china was not as open and developed as it is now.   children would run for kilometers to school, make toys with wood by themselves, and the biggest dream of a child was holding two jars of sugar, one white, the other brown in each arm and having the choice of eating whichever he wanted.  just look at what we have now. magnificent technological advancement has opened up a whole new world to us.
    however, just as our lives become more convenient, problems arise from this new life style. we seem to be caged in the modern technology; we are thinking alike as a result of using the same search engine, we are getting lazy as most of our work can be done by machines, and we are alienating people around us for we are more comfortable talking on phones and typing in front of a computer.
    if i was given the chance to make my magic wishes now, i would wish we could go back in time and live for three days without advanced technology.  i wonder what we would do in those three days. here is what i imagine:
    on the first day, people would be feeling so uncomfortable with the new situation that they would probably be confused and just not know what to do. the world would be in a mess for the whole day.
    on the second day, as

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