I would sacrifice myself to make the world a better, safer place. That’s all I want. I don’t really care at this point what happens to me, but if I could accomplish something useful and good, and stop this ride in the process, I’d be all for it.
See my post.
My wish #1 would be…
To know the actual wish that I would need to wish to answer the question that I should ask to learn the ultimate secrets of life and the big picture behind the universe.* (the Big Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything)
My wish #2 would be whatever was generated as a result of wish #1.
My wish #3 would have to depend on the knowledge I gained as a result of wish #2.
- You know, Douglas Adams wasn’t joking. I tried to form it into a question and couldn’t. … Hrmmm… Off to start a new thread about this…
I think I could now just wish that **Bosda ** gets her wishes. That leaves me 2 for emergencies I think.
- I wish I had a 200 page book of blank notepaper; the book has the magical property of causing any direction I write in its pages to become immediately true in exactly the way I intended.
His wishes, IYP. 
Not a fan of IGR, are we?
Internet Gender Reaasignment.
Most humbly sorry. I did not know and I wondered as I typed but decided to let the Feminine a at end of Bosda decide.
When unsure of Gender what is the SDMB accepted pronoun?
I would hate to waste an emergency wish on knowing gender of all posters. 
I think that counts as wishing for more wishes. Of course, so does my Green Lantern power ring.
#1: I like the idea of having an unlimited source of money, but not piles of it physically lying about. I would just like to be able to go to the grocery store, have the cashier say, “That’ll be $42.84…” whereupon I just reach in my magic purse or pocket and pull out exactly $42.84. I would have a killer wardrobe–so would my kids.
#2: I’d wish for everyone I know, including me, to stay healthy despite all the bad habits they might have or develop as they grow older. No one would have to exercise to maintain his/her shape or health. No one would have to worry about quitting smoking or drinking or whatever. It might be cool if a side effect of this wish was freedom from hangovers as they are officially kicking my ass nowadays (and I don’t drink that often…).
#3: I’d wish for the ability to read people’s minds. However, I would also need a corresponding ability to shut off that power at will. I don’t want to walk into, say, my son’s day care facility one day only to be involuntarily subjected to the internal ramblings of a roomful of three-year-olds after I’ve had a long day at work (although trips to the playground might be rather interesting, from time to time).
#1: A Point-of-View Gun with an infinite power supply and modified so as to temporarily share the points of view between any two people of my choosing, no matter where they are on the planet. First order of business would be to target Tony Blair and Osama bin Laden.
#2: Telekinesis.
#3: save for later, in case of problems from #1.
Didn’t read all the responses, so don’t know if this has been mentioned: one of my wishes would be for a book or some device that would answer any question I asked. Questions like, Is there a God, How will the universe end, etc.
The others would be to win a lottery and maintain a perfect body weight/muscle tone no matter what I ate or did.
Does “grant me omnipotence” qualify as a wish?
Failing that…the ability to create powerful and devious “memes” beyond human understanding. I stand on a busy streetcorner in San Francisco and say a catch-phrase with a wink and an odd tone of voice, and three weeks later, 75% of Al Qaeda members in the middle east spontaniously decide to commit suicide via autoerotic asphyxiation, and most of the rest 'em follow because they want to fit in. I make a few comments out loud while reading a Newsweek in an airport terminal, and six months, the daring and shockingly popular theory that Jesus was bisexual has caused six states in the Bible Belt to legalize same-sex marriages.
And/or the ability to bring dead things back to life.
With either of those, I really wouldn’t need to wish for money. I could just work in advertising, or start a Beatles reunion tour. So I could save Wish #3 for when the sun goes supernova, or something.