One wish

If you had one wish, what would you wish for?

What if one day you were suddenly given a wish. You could wish for anything you wanted, no restrictions. Would you wish for money? Fame? Love? World peace? World domination? A cure for cancer/other illness? Anything?


Hmm...there are probably too many stories that go along those lines. But still, if it's done right, it can be very unique and interesting. 'Course, most of the (very few) ones I've read either have happy endings and don't have a single thing go wrong, or otherwise have downright depressing endings where everything goes wrong.


Still, if someone had to ask me what I wanted, and I could get anything without restriction, I'd take my time deciding on something.


I wouldn't ask for money, that I do know. Even though it would be incredibly helpful since most of modern day society seems to depend on it, but I don't think I'd ever be happy. Same goes for fame.


Love is a tricky thing. I do believe that love really exists and that people can be happy with it, but if it happens because of a wish, I'm not sure I'd ever believe that it's a 'real' love. I'd never be able to stop worrying that whoever it is didn't just fall in love with me just because of a wish, and wouldn't have under any other circumstance. So I wouldn't wish for love.


World peace. As much as I hold a small part of me to hope for it, it would never last. I believe that human nature has conflict written into it, so as long as we still exist there will always be conflict of some sort. So world peace would be out.


As for world domination, that's automatically out. Not only do I not fancy being a ruler of any kind, but for all those people secretly (or not so secretly) hoping for this, think about it this way: you watch the movies with kings and rulers and such, and if you see them on a normal day, usually they have a lot of responsibility dumped on them, from anything to do with wars, laws, dealing with the numerous complaints from the people, and other such burdens. I've never liked having too much responsibility, so this wish would never happen.


I know that some people would opt to vote for a cure for cancer or some other illness, but I can't see myself doing that. It might be because I've never known anyone personally to have cancer or some other life-threatening illness, which some would consider lucky. But I think that part of this would also be that technology advances every day, and someone's bound to find the answer eventually, even if it happens by a pure accident. I didn't think that they'd ever make a vaccine for the flu that lasts longer than a single season or whatever, but according to my older brother and some sites found using Google, it seems that there is one being worked on (my brother says it's on animal testing stages) Now if they could only make one for the common cold and one for allergies...Actually, you can build up immunity to allergies with the help of doctors injecting concentrated stuff in your blood and watching you and stuff, but that takes time and money. I just want a single shot.


In the end, I think that if I'd wish for anything at all, it'd be happiness. Or wisdom. Or some other helpful trait. Because while the ones I'm thinking of can actually be obtained through natural means, technically all the other things can be too. And it'd be a help to me, if not necessarily for everyone else. And with the right set of mind, they could be used for good (or evil, but then I don't view myself as a particularly evil person)


What would you wish for?