Emotional Intimacy Question: Wishing

[ysabetwordsmith]

Folks have mentioned an interest in questions and conversations that make them think. So I've decided to offer more of those. This is the current list.

19. If a genie granted you three wishes right now, what would you wish for?

1. I wish you free.

Comments

[siliconshaman]

I think that might be my second wish. First one would be for a way to have my wishes granted, independent of any Genie or so on. Or at least, the power to actually work at making them come true myself. Although I'd tell the genie what I planned to do first. So he/she/it wouldn't be tempted to screw around with it. [pretty sure the whole trope of 'careful what you wish for' is a subtle way of saying the genie is screwing with you out of revenge.]

[jtthomas]

Ooh — what about a genie who was perfectly happy, thank you very much, and managed to find a way to retie themself to the object whenever freed? “It’s a home, comes with a good job. And I get to help all the people.”

My wishes would be having a stable house somewhere in not-Massachusetts, having pets, and having better instrument-playing skills.

[rafiwinters]

1. Financial solvency.

2. World peace.

3. The gluten-intolerance to GO AWAY.

[flamingsword]

1. I wish you to bring me every trapped genie.
2. I wish for you to have your own kingdom somewhere humans have fucked up too bad to inhabit.
3. I wish you all free.

[technoshaman]

I have a cop-out approach to this, and an odd idea about it as well:

First wish is the wisdom to make the other two well spent.

Second idea is that the first two are (1) an inordinately large sum of money, and (2) to make it no longer cool to hoard same, but cool to use it to improve as many lives as possible. The third would somehow involve karma on various people large and small that have committed grave injustices that are difficult for mere filthy lucre to solve.

[wispfox]

I initially interpreted this as you wishing everyone reading this to be free. I was a little confused. :)

[fayanora]

What if the genie is Jafar?

Shallowness alert.

[pronker]

That the old saying applies to myself:

1. Live Fast
2. Die Young
3. Leave a good-looking corpse.

[mama_kestrel]

First tell Djinn that final wish is freedom not only for it, but for all its kind that desire it.

First wish: Lasting good health for a long list of people, with the option to add to it when indicated.

Second wish: Enough money to help others when I see the need. That might be as small as a car repair, or as large as a reforestation project.

Third wish: Freedom for all those djinn who want it, from that time forward.

[alatefeline]

💜

[terrycloth]

Congratulations, you just destroyed the world?