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Unless it's one of those monkey's-paw wishes, in which case everyone immediately dies.
“But they’ll make bigger boards and bigger nails until they destroy themselves”
That I had a wallet with exact change every time I opened it. Dinner? My treat, you tip. You need groceries? Give me the list. The lady in front of me at the dentist that can't get more care till her bill is paid? Is cash OK?
And when a certain billionaire realizes he's lost way too much money and wants to offload this website he purchased for way too much you could just write a check.
Or you can like pay off all the student loan debt because you just happen to have 1.3 trillion dollars in your wallet.
Or just travel around and pay off school lunch debts, overdue book fees at local libraries, and get a round for everyone at every ice cream truck I see.
Being born a girl.
However you see yourself, it's welcome in our eyes.
"For chick pants to have dude pants pockets"
You're a hero the world needs right now.
As long as I'm happy in the moment, I wish for "more of this" because I'm usually having a good time and with people I love.
Yeah, appreciating the moment is the best wish ever.
I wish for my bestie's good physical and mental health. Preferably, she'll attain both at once in a way where she feels she earned it for herself.
Magic. And not ledgerdemain or magic that looks like things just kind of happened that sort of way, I'm talking magic missile, fireball, flying through the air blowing shit up, summoning familiars, castles in the sky, all that shit.
Blowjobs
Yeah dude. Chicks dig guys with a back pocket wish.
I love yours, and have one almost identical to it. But it's probably not one I would share with say, coworkers or casual friends. I have a "public and plausible" wish in addition to the fantastic and semi-private one. My public and plausible wish is usually that our lotto pool at work finally hits all the numbers. Considering the odds of that happening, it's damned unlikely, but at least it's theoretically possible. So maybe I should call it my "public and barely plausible wish".
I've always wished for Scarlett Johanssen, naked, to appear at the front door. It's yet to happen.
One of my buddies thinks she's plain / unattractive. Love the guy, but he's a complete idiot in this regard.
No I'm isn't
You didn't specify when. She will show up when she is elderly and in poor health. She'll knock on your door, then pass away.
It's always been to fly. Every time I blow out birthday candles, every time I fix my necklace chain, every time I blow away a fallen eyelash, every time I've thrown a penny in a fountain (oh how I miss the mall fountain!).
It never fucking works >:(
It's because you told us just now. It would've worked but now it can't!
What would be your "back pocket wish"?
That nobody is guilt tripped into making wishes on their birthday to satisfy social norms.
Check mate atheists.
"Oh, that was easy," says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.”
Since I was a kid, I settled on "$100 million." Simple. Enough to get you through life, but not being too greedy. Yet it's still never come true, so I'm beginning to think wishing on stars, candles, wells, etc... might sadly be bullshit.
I remember when I was around 12 or 13 I'd always say my wish would be to get 1 billion dollars per second, for the rest of my life, and that no one, including the government, would ever be suspicious of it
You sound like you played too much D&D.
I used to always wish that things would work out for the best.
I guess it was too vague because that's not how things have been going.
Health, happiness, and security for my kids.
Just to know that I'll be ok, I have a lot of chronic anxieties about the long picture future
You shouldn't feel pressured into making a wish.
I wish it was that simple.
On a personal level, a small house for my kids to live in before I die somewhere quiet. On a global level? Less privileged people would stop being taken advantage of by nefarious sources and systems designed to crush them.
Health and happiness for myself and everybody here with me. I hope everyone's dreams come true and they find happiness too.
Restorative Peace in our time. The absence of violence and presence of justice.
Here's your monkey's paw.
Time goes on, and you overcome a lot of those anxieties with age. You get married, start a great job, buy a house, have a couple kids, and generally start feeling comfortable with life.
Then in a flash you are back in your high school head, knowing that no matter what you do, you'll never get the mix of circumstances just right to do it again, which means at best your kids cease to exist and at worst, you lose everything that gave your life meaning. And you can't share that pain with anyone. And on top of that, you're now mentally a 45-year-old in a teenagers body, and rather than feeling attraction to your peers, they now look like children to you. You're full of confidence, but any attempt to use that confidence feels like taking advantage of a child (even though you are physically the same age).
I think of that, because your wish is a horror story for me. Whenever it's brought up, I think no amount of getting in on the ground floor of k-cups stock or bitcoin, no preventing catastrophes, nothing I could do would make me feel it was worth losing my kids. And worse, making them never exist.
By the way, mine is "I wish for a blowjob." I've got what I need. But I'll always take a blow job (FROM MY WIFE, TO BE CLEAR).