Oct. 21st, 2003
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Oct. 21st, 2003 02:56 pm![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
c) If you could have one wish granted right now (supposing I'm actually a genie), what would it be?
That's a sod of a question and instantly reminds of an amusing X-Files episode. I'm going to assume that wishing for lots more wishes is cheating and go with something a bit more deep, once I've thought of it.
There are two approaches to this. There's the wish that cures one of the world's problems (world peace, end to hunger, cancer cure, removal of Bush) and there's the selfish wish (lots of money, true love, complete happiness, success at something). I guess there's the argument that you can use one to do the other (wish for lots of money, then use it to pay 3 million scientists to research cures for everything, but also have enough left over to buy a really cool car) but if you've made a selfish wish, who says you actually have it in you to do that?
So, I'm now in a million knots and have no idea what to wish for. Good work. Right, here's my purely selfish wish, that is subject to change, but is the one thing I'd really like to happen right now. I'd like to wish for a highly successful Bed and Breakfast establishment, somewhere in the Yorkshire Dales, to be owned by my Mum, that will never stop having very rich and lovely customers and has a room at the back with a computer, just for me. That way my Mum will be doing something she enjoys and I can go back whenever I want, sit in my room and write. Bliss...
The beauty of this wish is that I might be able to make it come true one day. Comments telling me that I'm stupid and pedestrian and should have taken the money are always welcome.