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What's your "back pocket" wish?

https://lemmy.world/post/16742112

What's your "back pocket" wish? - Lemmy.World

A few years ago I felt kinda lame whenever I had to “make a wish” blowing out birthday candles or whatnot and the only thing I could think of under pressure was “world peace”. Since then, I’ve kept a wish ready to blurt out if I ever see a falling star or toss a coin into a fountain etc For me, it’s sending my mind, with all my current knowledge and experience, back in time into my body at the moment I graduated high school, so I could re-live my life with more confidence, less anxiety and get straight into doing the cool bits of my life much earlier. What would be your “back pocket wish”?

Jun 20, 2024 at 4:12pmWeb
Show threadBoozillaJun 20, 2024
I love yours, and have one almost identical to it. But it’s probably not one I would share with say, coworkers or casual friends. I have a “public and plausible” wish in addition to the fantastic and semi-private one. My public and plausible wish is usually that our lotto pool at work finally hits all the numbers. Considering the odds of that happening, it’s damned unlikely, but at least it’s theoretically possible. So maybe I should call it my “public and barely plausible wish”.
Show threadUncleArthurJun 20, 2024
I’ve always wished for Scarlett Johanssen, naked, to appear at the front door. It’s yet to happen.
Show threadBoozillaJun 20, 2024
One of my buddies thinks she’s plain / unattractive. Love the guy, but he’s a complete idiot in this regard.
Show threadKingJalopy Jun 20, 2024
No I’m isn’t
Show threadEmpricornJun 21, 2024
You didn’t specify when. She will show up when she is elderly and in poor health. She’ll knock on your door, then pass away.
Show threadMalfeasantJun 21, 2024
I mean, that doesn’t rule anything out…
Show threadSusagaJun 20, 2024
I wish for my bestie’s good physical and mental health. Preferably, she’ll attain both at once in a way where she feels she earned it.
Show threadTodayJun 20, 2024
Health, happiness, and security for my kids.
Show threadZagamTheVileJun 20, 2024
That I had a wallet with exact change everytime I opened it. Dinner? My treat, you tip. You need groceries? Give me the list. The lady in front of me at the dentist that can’t get more care till her bill is paid? Is cash OK?
Show threadbizarrolandJun 20, 2024

And when a certain billionaire realizes he's lost way too much money and wants to offload this website he purchased for way too much you could just write a check.

Or you can like pay off all the student loan debt because you just happen to have 1.3 trillion dollars in your wallet.

Show threadZagamTheVileJun 20, 2024
Or just travel around and pay off school lunch debts, overdue book fees at local libraries, and get a round for everyone at every ice cream truck I see.
Show threadcorsicanguppyJun 20, 2024

everytime

I wish people knew this wasn’t a word.

Show threadZagamTheVileJun 20, 2024
I’m not sure how exactly that improves the world but OK. I’ll edit my comment. And from now on I’ll be more careful about that. Not just this time, but everytime.
Show threadUsernameblankfaceJun 20, 2024
Anything becomes a word if enough people write it, and write it regularly enough that everyone else knows what the writer is trying to convey everytime.
Show threadbizarrolandJun 20, 2024
Lik this if you crie everytim
Show threadSwingingTheLampJun 20, 2024

It could be a word, like everybody or everything, perhaps a synonym for “24/7”.

When times is the diner open? Everytime!

Show threadTheRealKuniJun 21, 2024

everytime

I wish people knew this wasn’t a word.

Literally all words are made up. There isn’t some cosmic rule that says words have to be a certain way.

This means that as usage changes, new words are born.

Dictionaries recognize this better than the people who worship them. Dictionaries are descriptive, not prescriptive. Their job is to help people understand one another. Which is why the word “podium” in many dictionaries has a North American added definition for “see lectern.” Because when people in North America say “podium,” the usually mean a lectern. So now the word podium also means lectern.

So if enough people use “everytime” with sufficient frequency, it will enter dictionaries. Just like “anytime” did after people started using it in the 1800s. Same with “everyday.”

Don’t get me wrong, I wouldn’t recommend using non-standard vocabulary in a formal setting, like an article or a paper or some technical document. But Lemmy posts are informal.

Show threadMalfeasantJun 21, 2024
Every day and everyday mean different things, so maybe not the best example.
Show threadieatpwnsJun 20, 2024
I wish that when I die someone cremated me and blasts my ashes off into space
Show threadNoIWontPickANameJun 20, 2024
Major Tom?
Show threadNibodhikaJun 21, 2024
Major Tom’s a junkie
Show threadmannycalaveraJun 20, 2024

What would be your “back pocket wish”?

That nobody is guilt tripped into making wishes on their birthday to satisfy social norms.

Check mate atheists.

Show threadoo1Jun 20, 2024
“Oh, that was easy,” says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.”
Show threadz00sJun 21, 2024
How has that got anything to do with religion?
Show threadmannycalaveraJun 21, 2024

sigh

Not everything on the internet is meant to be taken seriously 🙄.

Show threadz00sJun 21, 2024
Sure bud
Show threadmagnetosphereJun 20, 2024
Well, “world peace” may not be original, but it isn’t bad.
Show threadFaceDeerJun 20, 2024
Unless it's one of those monkey's-paw wishes, in which case everyone immediately dies.
Show threadMouselemmingJun 20, 2024
I’ve always felt that unselfish wishes are more likely to get a pass from the monkey’s paw.
Show threadRhynoplazJun 21, 2024
I’m writing that into my head cannon. The monkey is cursed to punish greed, but it’s benevolence is abundant!
Show threadFlihpFlorpJun 20, 2024
“But they’ll make bigger boards and bigger nails until they destroy themselves”
Show threadMummifiedClient5000Jun 20, 2024
How did it work out btw?
Show threadmagnetosphereJun 20, 2024
What, world peace? Let’s just say it’s a work in progress.
Show threadnondescripthandleJun 20, 2024
Restorative Peace in our time.
Show threadcriitzJun 20, 2024
Blowjobs
Show threadKammicReliefJun 20, 2024
Show threadPythagreousTittiesJun 20, 2024
Yeah dude. Chicks dig guys with a back pocket wish.
Show threadSparklesJun 20, 2024
On a personal level, a small house for my kids to live in before I die somewhere quiet. On a global level? Less privileged people would stop being taken advantage of by nefarious sources and systems designed to crush them.
Show threadTywèle [she|her]Jun 20, 2024
Being born a girl.
Show threadCall me Lenny/LeniJun 20, 2024
However you see yourself, it’s welcome in our eyes.
Show threadbizarrolandJun 20, 2024
Magic. And not ledgerdemain or magic that looks like things just kind of happened that sort of way, I'm talking magic missile, fireball, flying through the air blowing shit up, summoning familiars, castles in the sky, all that shit.
Show threadEjh3kJun 20, 2024
Max verstappen’s immediate death
Show threadUsernameblankfaceJun 20, 2024

I wish I had a one car garage, in which any car I can think of would appear. I can drive it as long as I want, and park it back into the magic garage. I close the door. I think of a different car, open the door, and boom, there’s that car.

No storage, no insurance, every car is always fully charged or fully fueled. Bikes, trucks, anything that fits in a normal garage. (No limos, tanks, battleships)

Show threadJojo, Lady of the WestJun 20, 2024
Ever heard of the open source wish project?
Show threadUsernameblankfaceJun 20, 2024
No? what is this?
Show threadJojo, Lady of the WestJun 21, 2024
It was a short-lived project to basically rules-lawyer all the common wishes like wishing for wealth, long life, etc so you could still get them even from an uncooperative genie or a monkeys paw.
Show threadEmpricornJun 21, 2024
My wish is to hear about it.
Show threadJojo, Lady of the WestJun 21, 2024
It was a short-lived project to basically rules-lawyer all the common wishes like wishing for wealth, long life, etc so you could still get them even from an uncooperative genie or a monkeys paw.
Show threadEmpricornJun 21, 2024
Well, I wasted my wish, but thank you.
Show threadCall me Lenny/LeniJun 20, 2024
I wish for ten more wishes.
Show threadHipsterTenZeroJun 20, 2024
i wish everyone who dies goes to hell no matter what
Show threadJojo, Lady of the WestJun 20, 2024
Just tryna start some fires, or…?
Show threadHipsterTenZeroJun 20, 2024
a little bit. i don’t respect magic and think the hubris of wishing for something objectively bad is funny
Show threadz00sJun 21, 2024
r/im14andthisisdeep
Show threadDrusasJun 20, 2024

I used to always wish that things would work out for the best.

I guess it was too vague because that's not how things have been going.

Show threadRhynoplazJun 21, 2024
They just haven’t finished working out yet.
Show threadGood_morningJun 21, 2024
In 10,000 years things are going to be so great, the best, once they work out, they’re working so hard, all the time they’re working. And now, they’re working harder than ever, everyone says so. Believe it, when things work out it’ll be huge, they’ll all talk about it.
Show threadDrusasJun 21, 2024
Everybody says so.
Show threadTheDoozerJun 21, 2024

Here’s your monkey’s paw.

Time goes on, and you overcome a lot of those anxieties with age. You get married, start a great job, buy a house, have a couple kids, and generally start feeling comfortable with life.

Then in a flash you are back in your high school head, knowing that no matter what you do, you’ll never get the mix of circumstances just right to do it again, which means at best your kids cease to exist and at worst, you lose everything that gave your life meaning. And you can’t share that pain with anyone. And on top of that, you’re now mentally a 45-year-old in a teenagers body, and rather than feeling attraction to your peers, they now look like children to you. You’re full of confidence, but any attempt to use that confidence feels like taking advantage of a child (even though you are physically the same age).

I think of that, because your wish is a horror story for me. Whenever it’s brought up, I think no amount of getting in on the ground floor of k-cups stock or bitcoin, no preventing catastrophes, nothing I could do would make me feel it was worth losing my kids. And worse, making them never exist.

By the way, mine is “I wish for a blowjob.” I’ve got what I need. But I’ll always take a blow job (FROM MY WIFE, TO BE CLEAR).

Show threadNibodhikaJun 21, 2024
I used to always want this wish until I adopted a dog under very specific circumstances (We were coming back from the mall and the car in front of us ran over him and kept going, we stopped, grabbed him and took him to the vet). Since then I always think that if I ever get to ask this wish it needs to be back to a moment where I had already rescued him, otherwise those very specific conditions might never happen. So I can completely understand someone with kids thinking the same way, that is a LOT more impossible to match the conditions.