Pick one character flaw to be magically free of

In My Humble Opinion
1

Let’s say you’re cleaning out your attic one day and you come across an old lamp. Picking it up, you give it a rub and a genie pops out.

*“It’s your lucky day!” the genie exclaims. “Not as lucky as it could be, but still pretty lucky. I’m going to give you one wish!”

“Great!” you reply. “Deposit ten billion dollars in my checking account, please.”

“Sorry,” the genie replies. “It’s Tuesday, and the only wishes I’m granting today are for personal improvement. I will instaneously free you of any one character flaw you personally possess: impatience, compulsive lying, alcoholism, whatever.”

“When will you be granting monetary wishes?” you ask.

“Ten thousand years from now.”

“Crap. How about sex with Alyson Hannigan?”

“TWENTY thousand years from now.”

“Double crap. Er…immortality?”

“Look,” the genie says, “either pick a character flaw to be free of, or I’m outta here.”*
What do you choose?

2

Lack of willpower. It’s the very root of a good number of flaws that could be fixed if I just quit moping and did something about them.

3

For me, it would be my fear of confrontation. I can be such a doormat sometimes.

4

I’d like to be less introverted.

5

Shyness.

6

I’d like to be more confident please.

7

I’d like to be less analytical, learn to take things at face value, y’know?

8

Same. I’m having some work problems that could be solved if I didn’t dissolve in tears in the face of confrontation/conflict. My husband is angry enough (not at me) right now that he’s about to step in and kick some ass, but I want to open my churchmouse mouth and handle it. But damnit, it’s hard!

9

Procrastination.

10

That’s mine, too.

11

I’m not sure what the trait/flaw is, but I just can’t seem to focus on office busy work and the like. When there isn’t really a project or a goal out there, I kind of wander off in the internet or whatever. I wish I didn’t do that.

12

I’m sometimes too loyal to the wrong people and not loyal enough to the right ones.

13

Fear of locking Genies back in their damned bottle, sealing them up in a 600 ton block of lead and dropping it at the bottom of the ocean.

Now, let’s talk about that bank account option one more time…

14

Indecisiveness.

I think. Or maybe my inability to work out what I truly want.

15

Procrastination.

But if I got another shot, I’d make myself a better character judge.

16

Laziness. Not all the time, but enough to be irritating to me and others.

17

Being a doormat, if that’s okay with the genie. :slight_smile:

18

Please get rid of the loop that runs in my head where I dwell on negative events all the time.

19

Procrastination. Failing that, shyness.

20

Indecision I guess.

No, not that, procrastination, probably.

No, I was right, indecision.

Maybe ignorance.

Oh fuck it. I don’t know , make it apathy.