What is my utopia? I Googled the web for a journal prompt, and this was the question that I got.

My utopia would be a place where I could live exclusively with my boyfriend, with our families just down the street, in a cozy, serene house or apartment big enough to accommodate our needs as well as comfortably furnished, with perhaps a nice 70″ TV and maybe a sonorous surround system. Ideally, neither of us would have to work, but each would have a steady income, and we would spend our days sampling fruit tarts, green tea parfaits, Japanese chocolates and candy drops, and go shopping everyday at every mall and street in Vancouver, then return to our happy home and recline in each others’ arms on the sofa to watch TV or DVD’s together till the lights dim for bedtime. We would frequently meet up with parents and other family to have a round of golf or badminton, or some late Saturday morning dim sum, and round off our weekends with plays in theatres, movies, and dinner parties in winter, and kayaking, amusement parks, and stargazing in summer.

My utopia would have the typical requirements: world peace, zero crime rates, an endless abundance of natural resources, no earthquakes (or other natural disasters), and human-controllable weather. The most significant things that people must worry about would be what to wear to the next work event, or whether to switch to a Mac or stay with PC’s, or how to cook fish for dinner. In the midst of this comfortable, carefree world, my boyfriend and I would live in our own little microcosm, surrounded by a furry lining of family and friends.

The part about not working and still having a steady income is great, isn’t it? I suppose that’s the most unrealistic part about my utopia, since everything else is achievable—that is, until I get to the “world peace” part. But hey, I tried.

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