[ WP ] A man with a happy family and great life , comes across a genie who grants him three wishes . 10 years later he 's alone and depressed and commits suicide . Expand on his wishes and what prompts his downfall .

The man had wished for three things: 
 
 He had wished that he would have access to an unlimited stockpile of wealth. He never had need or worry of financial hardship again. 
 
 He had wished that he would have perfect health. His physical form was rid of imperfection and his ill conditions left him. Nothing could scathe his purity. 
 
 Lastly, he had wished that, upon the instant of a thought, he could learn all there was to know about any subject he so desired. He became a genius of unconquerable proportions. He instantly knew everything language, art, science. 
 
 Some might say that this man was greedy, but he was not. He sought only the best for himself and those whom he shared the Earth with. True, his successful life needed little advancement; he had already had a steady career, a wife, and adopted two children, a boy and a girl, by then ). However, he was chosen for his ambitions. 
 
 In the years following, the man took what was given to him and sought to right the world: 
 
 With his wealth, he invested in future technologies. Some saw a world without pollution. Some saw a world without violence. Others saw a world without hunger. All saw that the world could be better, and he shared their vision. 
 
 With his health, he was beautiful. A small, shallow obstacle, but this made him all the more likeable. The world embraced him as a celebrity. All the better, he had so many more years to share his vision with the world. 
 
 With his knowledge, he helped to advance the methods of those companies in which he had invested. The typical j curve of science became a short, straight, diagonal line that launched human possibilities forward like never before. 
 
 It took only five years for Earth to fall into the role of a peacefully inhabited planet. 
 
 There was no pollution. Gasoline and other fossil fuels had faded into uselessness. The world had changed over to transportation and communication that relied only on Earth ’ s gravitational rotation for power. 
 
 There would always be violence, but war was no more. This man ’ s technological advancements led to an economic demand. He ’ d invested wisely in the projects of multiple nations. The supply and demand that ensued so much leveled the world of competition that no country needed war for resources ever again. Weapons were reduced to such submissive, nonlethal objects that they could never topple a nation, and these tools were reduced to use only by small law enforcement units. 
 
 With the advancements made in genetics, food resources became limitless. Another reason for there being no war was that there was no desperation to birth war. The world was fully fed for the first time since humans first walked the Earth. 
 
 Then why do find him here now, alone, with a gun to his head? 
 
 To be certain, this man had not led himself to his own demise… 
 
 Or had he? 
 
 What good is limitless wealth if everyone in the world is wealthy? 
 
 What good is perfect health if medical advances are such that everyone in the world is without illness? 
 
 How can one have unmatched knowledge when there is nothing left to learn? 
 
 
 
 Like God might have thought when he created Eden, this man looked at Earth and saw that he had made the world too perfect. When there is no darkness left in the world, the soul breeds its own darkness. The natural order of life is that there is both goodness and badness. 
 
 Without the latter, this man fell into himself. He probed his own mind for discovery. There had to be more to life than what he had made for himself. Somewhere in his consciousness, there had to be something that he must not have known. 
 
 Another five years had gone by with this man in a state of mind-wrenching inward thinking. His children had left for college years ago, and his son and daughter were completing their third and fourth doctorates. The two of them had their own families by then and their own lives to discover; they had no time for their father ’ s obsession. 
 
 His wife had left him for the final time a year before. This man had become so disconnected and self-involved that she had felt no love from him anymore. Before she left for good, his wife tried to pry him from his thirst for knowledge with one last kiss, but he let her lips slip away from his. 
 
 And, now, he is alone. He still ponders the unknown, but he has an answer for every question raised by his expert thinking. 
 
 The only thing left to be learned is the lesson in admitting defeat. 
 
 I watch as he walks to the balcony ’ s door. He steps outside and makes his way to the rail. The lesson of admittance lies at the bottom of the forty story drop in the concrete below. 
 
 He steps over the rail. 
 
 He hungers for knowledge no more. 
 
 In my years, none have learned the true lesson which one needs from life: 
 
 That which we truly need is not what lies in what we do not know or what we do not have, but the excitement of what we can learn and what we can have. 
 
 It is for this lesson, and more so for this one man, that I am forever retired in my endeavors. To give a man all that he wants is, for me, to give him nothing at all. 

