If you were given 3 wishes to use for the purpose making your life better than it is now, what would you wish for? (No wishing for more wishes!)
My own wishes:
1. I wish I was in better physical shape.
2. I wish I never had to worry about money ever again.
3. I wish I could keep the knowledge Ive gained while resetting my life to when I was 14.
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It seems to me that most stories with three wishes are actually about the folly of knowing what we want, and the futility of such things.
That being said, my first wish would be to become the wisest man who ever lived…. then hopefully I’d have the wisdom to know what to use the other two wishes for.
In all seriousness though, it’s very much the problem, me not knowing what to wish for. When I was younger and enthusiastic I felt like chasing something would complete me… now though? I’d settle for enough willpower to make it through the day.
It seems to me the secret to getting everything you could ever want is to avoid having desires, at best it brings nirvana (the spiritual state, not the band), and at worst it ends with the world figuring out exactly how to buy you out of it
1. I’ll echo your number 3, and go back to when I was a child, but with some of the knowledge I have now. Ideally to when I was 8 (before things really started going wrong), but any time before I turned 20 would make a huge difference for me.
2. To be able to turn down the level of fear I experience I on a daily basis. Just to be able to walk outside again without it would be so nice.
3. Better genetics – there’s ways my body is uncomfortable that aren’t serious enough to qualify as a disability, but greatly detract from my quality of life.
If we’re just talking about self-betterment wishes (no world peace, or merciful cosmic annihilation) then I’d have only 1 wish really: the ability to reprogram my brain like a computer. For example in the midst of unbearably painful tragedy I could pop the hood, tinker around in there and program my brain to stop feeling emotions for a while. I’d reprogram my brain to forget certain traumatic memories, horrible people and things I wish I’d never seen. Maybe I’d just program myself to feel good about my life, to believe that “everything will work out”, “everything has a purpose”, and all the that BS that other people believe but I can’t.
I think that 1 ability would be the key to surviving any horror that life could throw at me, and I could make something worthwhile of my life. I could help others tirelessly without ever doubting myself, without ever wanting more because of course I’d program myself to feel satisfied with what little I have.
going to be that psychology nerd, what you are talking about exists, it’s called metacognition…. I get the thrust of your argument though, maybe a brain IDE, helpful indexes of useful functions and whatnot
I’m that strangest of creatures; psychology and computer science student
Cool, I just learned a new word. I imagine it’s similar to self-hypnosis or those trance like states that enable people to ignore physical pain. But you get what I mean with your computer science background, wouldn’t it be cool to have total control where you can wipe your brain’s hard drive and change your entire operating system? Just backup the files you really need, then wipe the rest.