and it turns into a piece of paper saying the cake is not a lie
i wish for complete and ultimate destruction of every atom

Granted. You open the mail to see the newest movie sent to you via Netflix. "The ultimate destruction of every atom" is a "Enthralling Movie" says critics.

I wish for a kookie!

so you get exactly that a new word called kookie
This is what i wish for
Monday, September 1, 2008
The Perfect Wish

Then God looked at me and smiling the perfect smile asked

“I shall grant you one wish and you can ask for anything you want. So what shall it be?”

I must have dreamt this sequence a hundred times or more, so naturally I’ve had a lot of time to mull this one over. I always thought that at this precise point I would ask God for ten more wishes and every time I was on my last wish would ask for another ten more, thereby having an infinite and inexhaustible supply of wishes making me the richest, smartest, happiest person on planet earth.

Of course after having made up my mind to outsmart my Creator I realised that there was just one hitch to the whole deal. There is no possible way to cheat your Creator and get away with it.

So I began looking at other options.

Now, wealth I wasn’t interested in. One of the earliest lessons that life drilled into my head was that money just doubled your problems and created an insatiable greed for more. I really could do with fewer problems and besides, as life went on I realized that if you put in a little bit of effort, you could earn all the money you want.

So then I turned to the wish that Solomon had opted for – wisdom. But what good would wisdom do for me? Being all wise was so very boring (not to mention, uncool!). I would hear and read all that people had to say and nothing would amaze me, nor would I feel the happiness that one feels at discovering some new thought or idea, because after all I would already know all, right? So I scrapped wisdom too off my list.

Immortality had its appeal for some time, but then watching everyone you love, die off would leave you with little reason to continue living, so that too lost its charm.

Thus my quest went on for the ultimate wish and now many years later, I feel I might have some answer. This might surprise most, it certainly did surprise me but then I think it might just be the perfect wish.

I would ask God to make me a nice person.

I know, I know, it’s a very cheesy answer and I sound like someone contesting for the Miss World title but it’s the one thing that struck me as the most difficult thing to work for. Most other wishes were either achievable through a bit of hard work, or were not worth it. This, however, is the one thing that requires super human effort and is impossible to achieve and therein lay its appeal.

To clarify further let me first define the word nice as used above.

By nice, I mean a person who can love everyone as her/himself.

But why have I deemed this as unattainable?

First of all, every one of us is prejudiced against some group of people. I would really like to meet someone who doesn’t have a bad opinion of some or the other group of people. That in itself is proof enough that we are all incapable of loving everyone.

And even if we did manage to put our prejudices behind us, could you really walk up to the guy who slapped your cheek and show him the other one? Loving your family, friends and near and dear ones comes naturally, a little hard at times but is still very possible but loving the people who hate you, who hurt you is that much harder.

(Imagine loving your crazy boss who never appreciates your work or the backstabbing employee or that friend who cheated on you?)

What makes this struggle so straining, is when you try really hard to be a better person, to love all the people and give it your best to see them happy and then they come right back at you and hurt you. It just leaves you so sore, so incapable of trying to work towards being that nice person.

So when I meet my Creator and He asks me my wish this is what I’m going to ask for - a wish that would somehow make me a nice person.

And what, you must wonder; would I get at the end of it?

A world full of nice people! (For if you really go to think about it, it would just be like triggering a big chain reaction) and that’s something worth wishing for.

Issued in public interest by Marina D'Souza

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Granted, except God isn't real (in my terms)

I wanna nother kookie!

your terms don't count so invalid
and it is a piece of cardboard that reads kookie
I wish for something unknown

You hAS no VISH???

u both have no wiiissh??

i want a rocket launcher!!! givvee MEEE!

wish granted. Ders a time bomb on it

I wanna NOTHER KOOKIE!!!

You receive the kookie as a new box but it is empty
I wish to live forever

granted, 'cept you have to labor all day down in the pits of the underworld

COOKIE!