Wednesday, June 21, 2006

24 comments:

Anonymous said...

I wish I could fight. I wish I could hear movement behind me. I wish I could scent out malevolence. I wish I could use any weapon I wanted, especially my hands. If I could, I would never have to wish for it again. And I could sleep.

Anonymous said...

I have a lot of money and many Internet homepages. I wish for peace—there is too much war going on here. I wish for 10 million dollars (to be the richest), everyone to have a house, supplies for camping, a computer printer, and love for everyone.

Anonymous said...

I like mathematics, inexplicable things, and all your popular science and puzzle books. I wish I didn't have to take AP US History. I wish I could manipulate space and time at my will. Then I would make time move nonlinearly, because the sequential stream of time really annoys me. In this way, I'd have all the time I wanted to learn mathematics. I wish I could travel to imaginary worlds, e.g. in books or pictures. I wish I had a pet monster who could project his thoughts as colorful images into the current world. I wish I had a Random Event Generator that could make anything happen at anytime at all. I wish everything had an 'undo' button. If everyone's wishes come true, would that create some kind of a gigantic paradox? It probably would. I wish people would smile more

Anonymous said...

I'm in band and I play the flute. Band is my life. I wish to be able to attend Juliard, because it's the best music school in the world. I also wish that there weren't shop-lifting detectors in almost all the stores. They always go off when I walk through them even though I don't steal anything.

Anonymous said...

My interests include cheerleading, gymnastics, writing, acting, and modeling. I'm a very stubborn individual with an open heart, but a sensitive personality. My life is filled with problems and mishaps, and I'm usually depressed. I try to cover the pain that sears me, but tears continue to flow. I dream for recognition. My main wish is for the return of a lost love. His name is Robert. Throughout the year and 5 months that we were together, we gave each other the world, but one day the magic died. He too is only 16 years old and I understand his need to see others in his search for the right one. It has been over two months since our breakup, but I am still aching painfully. I cry myself to sleep with his hockey jersey in my arms and his pictures beside my bed and under my pillow. I beg that he learns how to trust me again and realizes that I never lied to him. My love for him will never end and I pray that God or some higher being will help and bring him back to me. I desperately need him and until I find his love again, I won't sleep peacefully. I hope that someone out there will answer my prayers and make my wish come true. For there is no other like Rob..."

Anonymous said...

I like reading, writing, cross-country running, back-packing, animals, traveling, children, and helping others and the environment. I'm applying to the University of California at Davis with possible majors in International Relations, French or French literature, or Russian. I'd love to be a teacher. I'm Catholic and pray every night before bed. I wish for peace on Earth—a peace in which people can accept others' differences, in which people care enough to help one another, and where there is no crime on every other street corner, and people crying over cars in one city and starvation in another. I wish for the world's landmarks to remain as the are; for the rain forests to be rebuilt; for humans to stop polluting our world. I wish for this because I think the world is beautiful and humans are ugly. I wish to travel all over the world, to visit different peoples and cultures as well as different landmarks where I can backpack, mountain climb, and cave. I wish to be in perfect condition to be able to do these things. I love new experiences as well as being an active participant in nature. I wish to be able to speak more than one language fluently so I can speak to other people in their language. I wish for people to be able to communicate and the world to maintain peace and a sense of unity without computers. (I hate technology.) I wish for Jordan to like me and not have a long distance relationship. (I wish this because he was really cute and I really like him, yet he lives in France.) I wish to know which religion is correct because I'm confused, all religions seem correct and I stop believing in God. I wish for life to be simpler, to be allowed to live and enjoy the moment. I wish mermaids existed and I could be one, if only for a day. I wish I can be invisible for one day so that I can see what other people think about me. I wish to be able to fly. I wish for a horse, or, more specifically, a pegasus. I wish to be able to fall asleep within five minutes of wanting to, and to have a deep, dreamless sleep after which I wake up refreshed and able to face a full day. I wish I lived where it snows. I wish to live where the summers aren't as humid, unlike South Carolina where I live. I wish for perfect vision because right now it's -10, and that prevents a lot of fun things—like quickly getting ready for school, bed, or swimming.

Anonymous said...

I like dragons and swords, music, the fantastic and imaginary, and books (right now I'm reading Stranger in a Strange Land). I wish for a degree of happiness and fulfillment that can only be described as nirvana. I want to shine like the sun and wallow in pleasure. I want my smile to be commonplace. I want to know nothing but happiness and love.

Anonymous said...

I am a Math/English major, campus newspaper editor, former cleaning lady, bad typist, and all around cool person. I love to read, play the violin badly, and hate to dance. I intend to be a mathematics professor and publish mathematics books. Be careful, you might get what you wish for. I'm wishing I was either completely alone or very safely and securely attached. I wish my boyfriend had a libido, that I didn't hate my Calculus professor, that I didn't dread going home for Thanksgiving so much, that my term paper about social interactions in barbershops was written and was good. I wish my sister was happier at home alone now, that my mother wasn't so overbearing, that I actually liked my psychology class and that there would be world peace. I wish I didn't have a two-and-a-half hour drive home with people I didn't really like, that I wasn't such a wimp when I wanted something, that I'd done my math homework last night, and that I had gone out and goofed off with Pete before we left for Thanksgiving break. I'm wishing that everything would work out okay... and you know what? Something tells me that it will.

Anonymous said...

I love Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics and also have an extremely creative side because I sing, play the piano, have been doing ballet for 14 years, and love to perform in theater. I wish I knew what people thought of me. For example, do "my friends" really like me or do they just say they do to be nice? I also wish that I knew what I look like. Is the image I see in the mirror completely distorted? How do other people view my physical self? Do they think I'm skinny or healthy or fat? Will they lie because they know me? (I became mildly anorexic throughout my ballet training.) I'll never know for sure if my image is distorted or not. I don't wish for material things because I really don't want or need them. I'd rather be able to say on my dying day that I was happy and fulfilled. The only way that is possible is through love and doing what makes me happy - dancing, singing, and acting.

Anonymous said...

I study biochemistry because I don't really know what I want to do, and I love science, art, and theatre music. I wish to be invisible (so I can see and hear without being seen or heard), to possess telepathic and telekinetic abilities (to be able, at the other's consent, to speak through the mind) to be able to fly, and also take whatever I am touching flying with me (like a friend) to have an endless bank account, so I can start my own theatre company and not worry about living in a slum. I wish to make Alexandre love me again, to meet Robin Williams and Tori Amos, and to ask God, 'Why?

Anonymous said...

I am a Chemical Engineering Major with a long-time interest in fractals. I wish to be satisfied with my life when I'm old. I want to be able to completely live my life and do everything that I've wanted to do. My second wish is to be an astronaut. Flying in space would be an absolute wonder. My third wish is to control time, to stop the clocks every now and then. Control over time would make it easier to appreciate life.

Anonymous said...

I should tell you about a wish box I read about and used when I was younger. You just made a box yourself, and decorated it. You wrote your wishes on a piece of paper and put them in a box. When they came true you burnt the paper and put the ash back in the box to help the other wishes along. I believed in this method which is why it probably worked. I don't own the box anymore but my wish box was a great thing. My wish was for the happiness in love to last. I thought about my present boyfriend and wished for that feeling of love to never leave because relationships are often torn apart due to learned behavior patterns, trying to change each other, and not remembering you fell in love with how they were, not how you would like them to be. I wish we can love ourselves

Anonymous said...

I love animals, music, and writing poetry. I wish that no one in the world ever intentionally hurts anyone else, because people are continually hurting other people… If I wished for eternal happiness for everyone, then no one would probably ever know they were happy because they wouldn't know sadness either. I also wish that all of Richard Bach's theories were true, because his world seems like a nice place to be. Finally, I wish for all the money I'd ever want because as much as I'd like to think that I'm not materialistic, I want to travel to California.

Anonymous said...

I wish for a better understanding of life. I want to understand every single minute aspect of life. I wish to understand why people hurt others even when they don't want to. (Why we can't make ourselves happy; why do we need to 'wish' to be happy; what is it we need?) I wish to know how some people can be oblivious to things that are going on around them, and why the people who do see don't care to say anything about it, or are scared to, or don't know how. I wish to know Everything. Maybe then humans wouldn't be such a mystery.

Anonymous said...

I work as an emergency medical technician and am interested in theatre and music. About a year ago, a good friend of mine froze to death while on a trip to the French Alps. If I had a wish, I would go back in time and make sure that he does not go on such a trip. I would wish for his life back, and I would wish to take away the suffering that he experienced

Anonymous said...

I am currently a graduate student in Computer Science at University of Maryland at College Park. I am interested in travelling, dancing, cooking, and reading. I wish I am talented enough to simultaneously pursue various fields in the natural and social sciences. Pursuing knowledge is one of my three quests in life. I wish to experience the world, its nature, and its people. I wish to travel all over the earth, to see all the natural wonders, taste all the food, meet all kinds of people. To fulfill this quest I wish for time, health, energy, and money. I wish there is a universal language that everyone could understand. I wish the best for my friends and family. I hope to find someone to share my life, my ideals, and my love with. Human relationships are the most precious thing on earth. I wish all human beings are loving, understanding, and give each other respect despite differences in race, class, gender, educational background, nationality. The world would be a much better place to live when the lives on it are happy.

Anonymous said...

I wish that money wasn't a deciding factor in everything. I wish that food produced could be distributed evenly around the world to everyone, eliminating the needless destruction of food surpluses and the needless death by starvation of countless humans and animals, without worrying about economies. I wish that everyone's basic needs and rights could be met, however poor they are. I wish that research and development could proceed without researchers having to campaign for funding. I wish they could get to Mars without bickering about how much it is going to cost. My most heart-wrenching wish: I wish that animals could be given the same basic rights as human beings, the same protection. We should strongly protect those who are at our mercy and who don't understand our motivations, who endure enormous suffering in some cases. The pain of a beagle in an animal experimentation lab, the terror of a cow at an abbotoir, this is all wrong. It just should not happen. There are those that argue that we can't know that animals know fear and pain. We can't know that they feel contentment, happiness or love. But perception is a private world. We can never know what a horse feels, how a horse perceives the world, any more than I can know how you perceive the world. So if the horse appears to be itchy, I believe we should accept he knows he is itchy. And we should accept that the cow knows the terror, that the beagle knows the pain. And stop the torture. My selfish and personal wish: A three-day weekend. We would all be far happier people with far lower blood pressure if we all had a three-day weekend.

Anonymous said...

I am studying at the Australian National University, leading a slacker- type of lifestyle. I like drinking, good music, drawing and painting. I really like your web page. I wish I would stop wishing and actually do something. I believe that if you want something then nine times out of ten you can get it, so why don't I go get it instead of just wishing all the time?

Anonymous said...

I'm interested in bio-astronomy, spectroscopy and the universe in general. I wish to be happy and caring, to try and prove that aliens exist, to love my family and take care of them, and to have enough money so that I don't have to worry about money.

Anonymous said...

I am a full-time student preparing to transfer into Mansfield University's Sociology/Anthropology program. My interests are Frida Kahlo's artwork, Carl Sagan, Richard Dawkins, dancing, painting, and the sculpture of Camille Claudel. I wish for: a cure for AIDS, safe and accessible abortions, being allowed to choose without added pressures, a complete end to the Religious Right of America, illegalization of fundamental Christianity, complete, intelligent sex education in our schools, a good job waiting for me when I graduate college (teaching Anthropology at a University), being able to travel every summer, children, meeting and being able to have just one conversation with Dr. Carl Sagan, an end to the fighting between myself and my fiancee, just one more day with my grandmother who died two years ago, hearing my father say 'I love you,' and, finally, I wish to get my pilot's license.

Anonymous said...

I just reread a classic of children's literature, Five Children and It, by E. Nesbit which describes five children and a sandfairy that gives them wishes, but all the wishes seem to turn out wrong. I wish my job paid $5000 more a year than it does. I'm in publishing, which should explain it all. I'm 26 and I can't afford to live without a roommate and I find that somewhat depressing. I can't pay for therapy without sacrificing luxuries like food and phone calls to my parents. I wish all museums were free to the public and well funded. I wish mega-corporation bookstores would stop squeezing out the little independent bookstores. I wish Boston had good public transportation that ran all night. I wish abortion was safe and legal for everyone. I wish for less violence against women. I wish my sister and my parents will always be healthy and happy. I wish I were more creative. I wish I could fly, just for one day, without wings, or teleport at will to anywhere in the world. I would spend the day with my friend Stacy in Minneapolis or with my friend Jad in Colorado, and then teleport back home. I wish I had known my grandfather better.

Anonymous said...

I wish that people would teach their children to have respect for other people. Teach children that abuse, rape, and violence is wrong and not to be tolerated. I wish people would teach their children to defend themselves against bad people who want to hurt them. I wish people would understand that women have brains and talent. I wish people would understand that a person of any ethnic or racial origin has brains and talent. I dislike all forms of discrimination. I wish people would be kind to each other.

Anonymous said...

I am a college washout, an artist, a science buff, a Christian, a dreamer and a geek. I enjoy computer graphics, acting, dinosaurs, and gaming. I have never held a paying job, but I hope to soon. If a wishing stone started talking to me, I wouldn't be inclined to trust that voice. But, if I did trust that voice I would wish that no one would ever be an innocent victim, save that it be in a way most minor. I would wish for the superpowers that I have in my dreams. And I would wish that my friends, and, maybe everybody, would know the most important things, the truth that I know. I pray for that often. Perhaps I wouldn't need to wish it after all. I wish that after me, the wishing stone would only fall into the hands of those who would do good.

Anonymous said...

Not only am I an MLS degreed librarian, but I also have 28 hours of graduate study in Applied Anthropology/Archaeology. My nonworking hours are entirely taken up with training my two Australian Shepherds for competition. I wish for life-long health, happiness and prosperity. I guess that translates into winning the lottery and buying a large farm so that I can take in unwanted/abandoned Australian Shepherds and train them for use as assistance, guide, and therapy dogs—anything that can give them a purpose in life."