A few years ago I felt kinda lame whenever I had to “make a wish” blowing out birthday candles or whatnot and the only thing I could think of under pressure was “world peace”.
Since then, I’ve kept a wish ready to blurt out if I ever see a falling star or toss a coin into a fountain etc
For me, it’s sending my mind, with all my current knowledge and experience, back in time into my body at the moment I graduated high school, so I could re-live my life with more confidence, less anxiety and get straight into doing the cool bits of my life much earlier.
What would be your “back pocket wish”?
“For chick pants to have dude pants pockets”
You’re a hero the world needs right now.
They make those. They are just dude pants.
Apparently those who wear tight fitting chick pants prefer not having lines from pockets or undies or whatever.
If you want a middle ground, look to athletic brands built for climbers.
There is a discernable difference in the cut of pants, notably among the hips, that make this a non-option for some. Pockets shouldn’t come with the cost of looking like you’re wearing a sack of potatoes, lol.
The masses have chosen, non potato ass in return for no pockets.
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.
Wow that’s a good one
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.
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!
It’s no surprise to me, I am my own worst enemy ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Please tell me why
Oh, so you’re responsible for all these flies then. Rather cruel to wish for them two at a time.
That way there’zzz alwayzzz more flyzzzz 🪰🪰
Flying is easy. It’s surviving the landing that’s difficult.
To be happy.
This has been mine. I changed it to “be content” in my 20s.
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.
They just haven’t finished working out yet.
In 10,000 years things are going to be so great, the best, once they work out, they’re working so hard, all the time they’re working. And now, they’re working harder than ever, everyone says so. Believe it, when things work out it’ll be huge, they’ll all talk about it.
Everybody says so.
You shouldn’t feel pressured into making a wish.
I wish it was that simple.
Just to know that I’ll be ok, I have a lot of chronic anxieties about the long picture future
Health and happiness for myself and everybody here with me. I hope everyone’s dreams come true and they find happiness too.
Invulnerability. To age, sickness, death, anything that could physically harm me. I want to live forever.
Or barring that, telekinesis.
I just picture you floating in an endless void 100 billion years after entropy has moved every single subatomic particle away from each other. Somehow you have been sustained. The last sophisticated entity in the universe. Your billions of years of loneliness have already driven you to the point of insanity, enlightenment, insanity again, and finally a state of which no one could imagine. Because you don’t consume food or water, you’re in a perpetual state of hunger and thirst. You don’t feel harmed, but you do feel peckish all the time. You could do with a draught. Your wish didn’t allow for pain “thank God”, you think.
And Cryophilia said, “LET THERE BE LIGHT!”
And there was light –
That’s exactly what I thought of while reading that answer.
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Skill issue
The problem is that they didn’t want to pay dreamhost for a certificate. So https doesn’t work. You need to use http://www.thelastquestion.net
Except for some reason Jerboa (the client that I use) obstinately rewrites that to use https.
Eventually, Kars stopped thinking.
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).
I used to always want this wish until I adopted a dog under very specific circumstances (We were coming back from the mall and the car in front of us ran over him and kept going, we stopped, grabbed him and took him to the vet). Since then I always think that if I ever get to ask this wish it needs to be back to a moment where I had already rescued him, otherwise those very specific conditions might never happen. So I can completely understand someone with kids thinking the same way, that is a LOT more impossible to match the conditions.
That’s not a monkey’s paw, that’s just… sad.
i wish everyone who dies goes to hell no matter what
Just tryna start some fires, or…?
a little bit. i don’t respect magic and think the hubris of wishing for something objectively bad is funny
r/im14andthisisdeep
Same, but the start of high school.
I think time travel would be the coolest. I’d like to see the distant future, see how far we’ve come. I’d like to go back and see historical moments and verify that they actually are what history says. I’m sure a nontrivial amount of our (distant) history as we know it is just wrong because the facts were lost to time.
Polite company: peace, rest, calm, something like that.
Honestly: people to leave me the fuck alone and stop asking me to solve their problems and take care of everything. I’m burned out on being responsible for other people.
