If you could have one limited wish... what would it be?

April 28, 2011 6:50pm CST
Imagine you're given the chance to have one reasonable, limited wish granted. What would it be? By "limited" and "reasonable", I mean you can't wish to be immortal or all-powerful, for example, but you can wish for perfect health until you die. You can't wish for more wishes, either, Mr. Sneakypants. You also can't wish for something that changes the whole world, either (world peace, although it'd be wonderful, is a no-no) - it has to be a single, limited wish for yourself. And don't forget to consider the consequences. (Like the look on your face if you were guaranteed perfect health and got hit by a bus the next day...)
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@Sandra1952 (6047)
• Spain
2 May 11
Hello, Spike. I'd really like to become well-known for my writing. I get lots of positive feedback from readers, and I earn a fair bit from it, which is great, but I want more. I'd like to be offered a regular column in a well-known newspaper, and be asked to appear on 'Question Time' or something. I'm never going to be a best- selling author, as fiction is not my forte, but I'd love to be recognised for what I do. Of course, the corrolary with this is that I'd also earn a lot more money and get to travel and meet new people, so it's a sort of multi-faceted wish. Does it still count, and would you want to sleep with me when I'm famous?
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2 May 11
I think most writers have a secret wish like that - I know I do! And no, I'm afraid I'm Mr. Faithful and only want to sleep with one person: my lady.
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• Spain
2 May 11
Oh well, I'll just keep plugging away at Helium while I wait to become an 'overnight success.'
@lacieice (2060)
• United States
29 Apr 11
I would wish for enough...enough good stuff like health, enough money, enough love, enough contentment, enough happiness...just enough to live a happy life. I don't want an over abundance...just enough to live a comfortable life without excessive worry and stress.
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29 Apr 11
Absolutely brilliant. Such a simple wish, but absolutely perfect. "Enough." I love it. (Incidentally, my lady said she'd wish for the ability to double anything. That works out similar - if you don't have enough, you double it.)
@lacieice (2060)
• United States
29 Apr 11
Thank you very much...glad you like it
• Philippines
29 Apr 11
I'd want to win the Lottery Jackpot. Even for just like one time. We have been renting all our life and my mom and I really wishes to have our own of our own where both of us can be finally settled without having to worry in earing the next month's pay for rent. And if ever there is still much left in the money that I won in the lottery, I'd like to study again. This time with photography. Until now, I haven't found a skill in which I know that I am really good at so maybe I can find it in photography. Might as well buy myself a good Canon SLR camera. And after the lessons, after everything is settled. I'll treat my mom to go on vacation to a country of her choice. She has been working hard all her life and she really deserves a good, good break and relaxation. =) I hope my wish is qualified for your discussion.
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29 Apr 11
Keeping my fingers crossed for exactly that in tonight's Euromillions. Good choice!
@HansonFan (1653)
• United States
29 Apr 11
Mine would be an expense paid month long trip through Europe. I went to Italy a few years ago and I am dying to return and see the other countries as well. It was a wonderful experience that truly changed the way I look at life and how I live it. I came back with a new outlook on life that I feel needs to be refreshed.
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29 Apr 11
Very nice! Since it's a wish, why not make it a yearly occurrence for the rest of your life or something? Maybe a different venue each year...
@tigeraunt (6326)
• Philippines
29 Apr 11
hi spike, thats funny. i wish to have a life where i can leisure travel anytime i want to any part of the world without worrying how much i will spend, or what to eat, or where to stay. it is not much isnt it? ann
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29 Apr 11
Oh, I like that one. It's the "any time I want" that makes it so good - open-ended, nice and flexible... good choice!
@efnaser (30)
• Indonesia
29 Apr 11
I would wish to meet an internet business guru,so I can learn so many internet business from him, cos I have tried for many years in earning money from internet but always fail. I have never met anyone who mastering internet business.
29 Apr 11
Wouldn't it be easier to wish to BE the internet business guru?
• Indonesia
30 Apr 11
ha ha... good idea, but it's only dream any way ^-^
• Philippines
29 Apr 11
I want to wish for a perfect career. I will be a supermodel and be very rich and happy. Is that good? This is the only limited wish I can think.
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29 Apr 11
Hmm, nice answer but it wouldn't last, would it? Models (even supermodels) don't generally have a very long career and they get treated pretty badly by the press. Then again, it's a wish, so you could wish for it to last ages and be wonderful all the time..!!
• Southend-On-Sea, England
1 May 11
I'd probably wish to be not rich, but financially comfortable for the rest of my life so that I wouldn't have to work so hard.
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@Bryanx54 (644)
29 Apr 11
My wish would be to become more confident in my own abilties and never miss oppurtunities that way, i can live a successful life, the only consequence is 'would i be happy to be sucessful' and what if im too successful that i forget and neglect those close to me sometimes in life we need to balance it out. good question. :)
29 Apr 11
Wouldn't it be easier to wish for the confidence AND the success?
• Philippines
29 Apr 11
Well having a stable, good, fun, and almost perfect family of my own. :) I don't care if we're not that rich, money can always be earn. :) just an intact family, good kids. That'll be awesome. :)
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29 Apr 11
How dull... and probably one of the best thought-out wishes I've ever heard! With an almost-perfect family ("almost" is a great addition, since perfect would be awful) anything is possible and happiness would be omnipresent. Very good choice, imho.
@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
29 Apr 11
I would wish for my family to be reunited. For two decades now, we had been a family divided, half in America and the other half in the Philippines. If I had one wish, I'd like us to be together again.
2 May 11
i wish i would look last at that girl who is my first love.
@sashakiddo (1102)
• United States
29 Apr 11
I would wish for a completely free of charge mansion so I could live without paying, and house a bunch of poor people just like a hostel. It wouldn't hurt for it to be on a private beach too. So I could learn to surf without anyone stealing the waves.
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29 Apr 11
Excellent. When I first saw that I thought "Hmm, yeah, I guess" but the more I think about it, the more of a good wish it is. No mortgage. No possibility of losing your home. Nothing to pay, ever, for a roof over your head. Now that's stress-free living!