If you could have one wish....

If you could have one wish, what would it be? It must be something about yourself, not a generalization like "world peace".

I'll start. Maybe I'd wish for enough money to buy a totally new wardrobe. I'm really so tired of wearing the same clothes year after year.

Nancy, that is a hard question. I have thought many things and keep deleting them.

I thought at first I would wish for a car, one the door doesn't keep falling off of, the tire keeps going flat, the paint is the only thing holding it together.....

THen I thought I would wish for money to pay off all these bills I am looking at for a fresh start....

But, I think what I really would wish for....is a job I would love to do, to make me happy so I am able to attain those things and help pull my life back together.

I wish I had a lot more confidence, and was smarter. (Now that's two wishes.... but I need them both.)

I wish that I had all of the plants back that I have managed to kill over the last 15 years (or the money to replace them).

Me too!

One wish? In invisible barrier around my family to keep them safe and happy.

If I figure out how to get one, I'll share it with the world! LOL

Realistic wish-financial security and the good health to enjoy it!

I'm usually not much of a wisher, but I'll go for our grandson to be born today or at the latest tomorrow - lol :)

Dea

My wish would be to find Mr Right without all this irritating searching & sorting....

=)

Lol AngelSong....trying to find Mr Right is like shoe shopping; you must try them all on to find the one that is comfy and won't give you blisters! Been there too.

My one wish is/was to have had a good mother. Not the one who abandoned me (and my sister) in our teens, who showed no interest in my babies, who never came to my wedding, who said I would never amount to anything and the list goes on. Yeah, I will always and forever wish that I had a mom.

Erynne, Every one that follows my kids home ends up calling me "mom", soooooooo come on down! :D

My wish is for all of my family & friends to be happy & healthy, & appreciate it. :-))

Joey

I'd wish for a farm...all paid for...with room for lots of horses.

To be able to get in my car and drive around the country for about 6 months....I'm always happiest on the road seeing new things and can't stand it that there are places I haven't been to...to see how other people live and "try on" living here or there.
Sherry

I wish I could meet all my DG friends! :-)
Hugs&blessings ... Elaine

wcgypsy, that sounds great to me too. You and IO1 should combine your dreams and go together!

wcgypsy and I01, I want to go with you!!. I would love to visit every state, and spend some time there. I know that there will be many places I do not get to visit, and that makes me kind of sad. It's almost like having a good book to read, but never getting it finished.

Erynne -- sister!

Your mom, unfortunately, sounds a lot like mine. She was never really interested in me or anything about me unless it had some immediate and obvious benefit for her. Of course, "benefit for her" also included raking me across the coals for her amusement until I was upset and depressed. (And she honestly doesn't understand why her children never write or call. She doesn't even know that I moved or that I bought a house. She wouldn't believe me even if I told her.)

As for my one wish, I would wish for perfect health. I don't see how I could go wrong with that.

I wish that my life and that of my children could be happy. I wish my husband was my friend and someone I want to spend time with, not someone who is constantly yelling, critizing and verbally abusing me and my boys. I wish my boys to not have their dads anger issues.

Lol, this is so cute. I've gained a mom (Joey) and a sister (White_Hydrangea) in one night....sniff, sniff, thank goodness for this DG family!

Hugs to all,
Erynne

Ummm Erynne, make that two sisters! Been there, done that, have the shoe prints on my back. LOL

Count me as a mom or sister to any who needs one. Have a great DM, and a twin sister, another alien brother and sister, so 2 out of 4 ain't bad.

I wish that my retirement was financially secure.

I honestly wish that all your wishes would come true!!!!!!! I have a wonderful bunch of people that I love and that love me. Fairly good health and for me thats all I could want. Meem

Perhaps we could start a caravan.....those who are not so happy with their families could come along, too, just to get away. It's really hard for your problems to catch up with you as long as your car keeps running....moving target, rolling stone....hmmmm, is this how Thelma and Louise started? We could change the ending, though.
Wishing happiness for all of you!
Sherry

Oh, don't get me started on Thelma and Louise. I *loved* the movie! But why is it that Butch and Sundance ride off into the sunset, and Thelma and Louise have to die? Why is it that Rocky Balboa wins out, upbeat background music and all that, and the female boxer in Million Dollar Baby (another great movie) has to die? It's like women aren't allowed to go outside accepted boundaries. If they do, life gets even, they get punished.

Okay, off the soapbox now. But I've noticed that, and it peeves me no end.

Badseed, you do realize that if we become sisters, I would get to be Auntie to your six monkies and you would become Auntie to my four. That's 10 kids and whole lotta Christmas & Birthday presents. Sure you don't want to rethink this, LOL.

Thanks for the smiles ladies,
Erynne

I hear you WH, but I loved the Thelma and Louise because I like suprise endings. My peeve is predictable. But that's another thread!

Erynne, we could just do drawings and everybody buys for one person or do family gifts. ;) Better yet, we could skip the gifts and just have great fun and great food and a great time being with people we chose to be with and not the ones that were dropped into our lives. ;)

I'd wish for an infinite number of other wishes to come true. Actually I'm not sure I would, wishes often come true but not necessarily in the way we want them to as the old adage goes be careful what you wish for. Wishes are a lot of responsibility and I'm not entirely sure I want to be very responsible :)

Baa, that is so funny. I just remembered that when I was little and the genii in the bottle story was discovered, I would wish for two things. The third wish was for 3 more wishes!

Smart thinkin', billy!

Good health for me, my husband and our family with just enough money to be happy and content.

Impossible, but I'd wish everyone who wasn't blessed with great parents, like mine, had them. I've been abundantly blessed in so many ways I'd be selfish to wish for myself. I'd wish everyone to get what they wish for, today and always.

Looking back, I'd wish the tragedy of this date never happened.

Amen.

Amen here, too.

Five years ago, I had just gotten and accepted a job offer the day before, to start the week after, so for a very short while, several hours, really, my life was secure, and I was happy.

Then I wandered out into the living room on Tuesday the 11th and turned on the TV. I figured that my last week out of work would be a relaxing mini-vacation.

They were talking about a plane going into the World Trade Center, and on the bottom strip they were talking about evacuating downtown Denver. We have twin World Trade Towers here, built after the ones in New York, I'm sure, and I thought a plane had accidentally hit one of our buildings, and they wanted people out of the way in case of falling debris.

That was my world then. Horrible accidents happen. Plane engines fail. Pilots have heart attacks. That's what I assumed.

I kept watching, and they said that this happened in New York. I didn't understand. What did that have to do with Denver, and why were all the airports shutting down?

Then they showed the footage of the second plane. And they showed footage of both planes, over and over and over.

I didn't spent the week on vacation. I spent it in front of the TV, sobbing.

Which I'm starting to do again, so I think I'll sign off, go get a bite to eat, and go to bed. Night, y'all. Stay safe.

White_Hydrangea, I sobbed the whole week, too. (DH too) We thought it couldn't get any worse after the OK bombing, but as usual I tend to be mistaken. I just couldn't believe that someone could be so intentionally evil. Violence breeds violence, I'm sure.

I guess we should spread love around to counter-act the hate.

That is a wonderful idea, music. Makes me think of a new thread.....

music2keep, how true. A quote that I love is by a Columbian priest named Leonel Narvaez "Against the irrationality of violence it is necessary to propose the irrationality of forgiveness." Often, that is much easier said than done but it does bring a measure of peace.

That said, my wish would be for something that may seem very selfish. I'd love to have a snowmobile for the winter and a boat for the summer (and maybe an ATV to get the boat to the river.) I live on an island (with no bridge to it.) A boat and snowmobile would open up many activities (like leaving the island once in a while) and would be much more practical than a car (which we don't have right now either.)

I will be content with what I have though because I do have many blessings.

Thanks for your thoughts, gillibean. I hope you get your wish.


Try this new thread.


http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/650392/

My biggest wish is that our home would be finished, it's been 5 years since we started to build.

My one wish would be to find my biological father....Lauri