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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"?

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[–] TheDoozer@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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).

[–] Nibodhika@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

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.

[–] z00s@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

That's not a monkey's paw, that's just... sad.

[–] nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Restorative Peace in our time. The absence of violence and presence of justice.

[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (7 children)

Invulnerability. To age, sickness, death, anything that could physically harm me. I want to live forever.

Or barring that, telekinesis.

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[–] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I wish that when I die someone cremated me and blasts my ashes off into space

[–] NoIWontPickAName@kbin.earth 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] Nibodhika@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Major Tom's a junkie

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago

I wish for ten more wishes.

[–] GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

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.

[–] dumblederp@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Same, but the start of high school.

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 1 points 4 months ago

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.

[–] Usernameblankface@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I wish I had a one car garage, in which any car I can think of would appear. I can drive it as long as I want, and park it back into the magic garage. I close the door. I think of a different car, open the door, and boom, there's that car.

No storage, no insurance, every car is always fully charged or fully fueled. Bikes, trucks, anything that fits in a normal garage. (No limos, tanks, battleships)

Edit, hmm, this one is not so simple. Seems a one-liner would be better for a quick response

[–] Silentiea@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Ever heard of the open source wish project?

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

My wish is to hear about it.

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[–] Silentiea@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 months ago

It was a short-lived project to basically rules-lawyer all the common wishes like wishing for wealth, long life, etc so you could still get them even from an uncooperative genie or a monkeys paw.

[–] TheV2@programming.dev 0 points 4 months ago

Infinite wishes

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