# What's your wish? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 19, 2007, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wish/396495 "2007-03-19T00:14:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wish/396495/1 "2007-03-19T00:14:34Z")
Please don’t overthink or over-analyse this. What is your wish? My wish is that I had more patience to persue lengthy things to their end. ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wish/396495/2 "2007-03-19T00:16:53Z")
I wish my grandchildren would call me, send me email or come to see me. ---
**Author:** ![Madd\_Maxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Madd\_Maxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Madd_Maxx)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wish/396495/3 "2007-03-19T01:46:23Z")
I wish I could win the lottery so my wife and I can stay home and raise our kids. ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wish/396495/4 "2007-03-19T01:47:40Z")
I wish I wasn’t being micromanaged. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wish/396495/5 "2007-03-19T01:52:46Z")
I wish I was with my girlfriend. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wish/396495/6 "2007-03-19T01:53:48Z")
Oh shit, cancel that wish. I wish for more wishes! ---
**Author:** ![Vision\_of\_Love](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Vision\_of\_Love](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vision_of_Love)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wish/396495/7 "2007-03-19T02:12:39Z")
I wish that a wonderful lady that I care very deeply for, and who has been hurt and abused all her life would find happiness again. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wish/396495/8 "2007-03-19T02:29:16Z")
Artistic and financial success. …Or, death to all the enemies of the United States. I’d want them to fry like pigs in the bowels of Hell. That’d be nice. 🙂🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wish/396495/9 "2007-03-19T02:38:53Z")
I wish we had more money. (I wish the hot water tank hadn’t gone last weekend.) ---
**Author:** ![Gorgonzola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e480ec/32.png) [@Gorgonzola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorgonzola)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wish/396495/10 "2007-03-19T02:40:04Z")
For my husband and daughter to live long and happy lives. guess that means I’m moving out ---
**Author:** ![Not\_a\_Platypus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d26b3c/32.png) [@Not\_a\_Platypus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Not_a_Platypus)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wish/396495/11 "2007-03-19T02:41:06Z")
I wish I had the motivation and self-discipline to get back into a healthy lifestyle. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wish/396495/12 "2007-03-19T02:49:17Z")
I wish Colorado was closer to California. ---
**Author:** ![Nic2004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@Nic2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nic2004)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wish/396495/13 "2007-03-19T02:54:22Z")
I wish California was closer to…oh, I don’t know…Japan? Oh c’mon. Just funin’ 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e56c9b/32.png) [@Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mirror_Image_egamI_rorriM)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wish/396495/14 "2007-03-19T02:56:35Z")
I wish I wasn’t bipolar. ---
**Author:** ![Elysium](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3be4f8/32.png) [@Elysium](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elysium)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wish/396495/15 "2007-03-19T03:16:48Z")
I wish I was free of my social anxieties. Also, I wish my fiance could see how my brain works for just a day so he could have a point of reference. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wish/396495/16 "2007-03-19T03:38:27Z")
I wish for President Bush to go completely, utterly mad in public, before a live audience and on live TV. Something like yanking a pistol from a Secret Service guard, and trying to shoot someone who asked him a question. I imagine him being wrestled to the ground by his own guards, screaming “Don’t question me ! I’m God’s President, you hear me !? GOD’S PRESIDENT !!” ---
**Author:** ![malkavia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malkavia/32/5621_2.png) [@malkavia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/malkavia)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wish/396495/17 "2007-03-19T03:56:27Z")
I wish I was happy. ---
**Author:** ![Tikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5daacb/32.png) [@Tikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tikki)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wish/396495/18 "2007-03-19T05:07:52Z")
I wish drugs such as crack, heroine and the like would disappear and stop ruining so many peoples’ lives. ---
**Author:** ![Lakai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lakai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lakai)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wish/396495/19 "2007-03-19T05:09:51Z")
I wish there was a government that was truly devoted to giving everyone an equal chance to be happy. ---
**Author:** ![BrattiAtti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c57346/32.png) [@BrattiAtti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrattiAtti)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wish/396495/20 "2007-03-19T05:24:54Z")
I fear the outcome when I say, “No regrets.” I wish I wouldn’t question my choices. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-wish/396495.md?page=2)