What's your "back pocket" wish?

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"?

HipsterTenZero ,
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i wish everyone who dies goes to hell no matter what

Silentiea ,
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Just tryna start some fires, or...?

HipsterTenZero ,
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a little bit. i don't respect magic and think the hubris of wishing for something objectively bad is funny

z00s OP ,

r/im14andthisisdeep

shinigamiookamiryuu ,

I wish for ten more wishes.

Usernameblankface , (edited )
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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 ,
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Ever heard of the open source wish project?

Usernameblankface ,
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No? what is this?

Silentiea ,
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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.

Empricorn ,

My wish is to hear about it.

Silentiea ,
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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.

Empricorn ,

Well, I wasted my wish, but thank you.

Ejh3k ,

Max verstappen's immediate death

bizarroland ,

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.

Tywele ,
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Being born a girl.

shinigamiookamiryuu ,

However you see yourself, it's welcome in our eyes.

Sparkles ,
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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.

criitz ,

Blowjobs

KammicRelief ,

Image

PythagreousTitties ,

Yeah dude. Chicks dig guys with a back pocket wish.

nondescripthandle , (edited )

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

magnetosphere ,
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Well, “world peace” may not be original, but it isn’t bad.

FaceDeer ,
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Unless it's one of those monkey's-paw wishes, in which case everyone immediately dies.

Mouselemming ,

I've always felt that unselfish wishes are more likely to get a pass from the monkey's paw.

Rhynoplaz ,

I'm writing that into my head cannon. The monkey is cursed to punish greed, but it's benevolence is abundant!

FlihpFlorp ,

“But they’ll make bigger boards and bigger nails until they destroy themselves”

MummifiedClient5000 ,

How did it work out btw?

magnetosphere ,
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What, world peace? Let’s just say it’s a work in progress.

ieatpwns ,

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

NoIWontPickAName ,

Major Tom?

Nibodhika ,

Major Tom's a junkie

mannycalavera ,
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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.

oo1 ,

"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.”

z00s OP ,

How has that got anything to do with religion?

mannycalavera ,
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sigh

Not everything on the internet is meant to be taken seriously 🙄.

z00s OP ,

Sure bud

ZagamTheVile , (edited )

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?

bizarroland ,

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.

ZagamTheVile ,

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.

corsicanguppy ,

everytime

I wish people knew this wasn't a word.

ZagamTheVile ,

I'm not sure how exactly that improves the world but OK. I'll edit my comment. And from now on I'll be more careful about that. Not just this time, but everytime.

Usernameblankface ,
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Anything becomes a word if enough people write it, and write it regularly enough that everyone else knows what the writer is trying to convey everytime.

bizarroland ,

Lik this if you crie everytim

SwingingTheLamp ,

It could be a word, like everybody or everything, perhaps a synonym for "24/7".

When times is the diner open? Everytime!

TheRealKuni ,

everytime

I wish people knew this wasn't a word.

Literally all words are made up. There isn’t some cosmic rule that says words have to be a certain way.

This means that as usage changes, new words are born.

Dictionaries recognize this better than the people who worship them. Dictionaries are descriptive, not prescriptive. Their job is to help people understand one another. Which is why the word “podium” in many dictionaries has a North American added definition for “see lectern.” Because when people in North America say “podium,” the usually mean a lectern. So now the word podium also means lectern.

So if enough people use “everytime” with sufficient frequency, it will enter dictionaries. Just like “anytime” did after people started using it in the 1800s. Same with “everyday.”

Don’t get me wrong, I wouldn’t recommend using non-standard vocabulary in a formal setting, like an article or a paper or some technical document. But Lemmy posts are informal.

Edit: Also, for what it’s worth, I frequently offer corrections for spelling and syntax. Just…this type of vocab isn’t worth correcting (in my mind anyway).

Malfeasant ,

Every day and everyday mean different things, so maybe not the best example.

Today ,

Health, happiness, and security for my kids.

Susaga , (edited )
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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.

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