Here are some other things I wish:
- I wish I could have fried chicken without killing a chicken.
- I wish everyone read to their kids.
- I wish I were faster.
- I wish the scones in coffee houses didn't have the nutritional value of an egg mcmuffin.
- I wish I'd never smoked.
- I wish I'd started running in high school.
- I wish my Mom was still alive.
- I wish mock meat was as common here as it is on the coast.
- I wish my oldest son would go to college.
- I wish my daughter would exercise more often.
- I wish all religions practiced tolerance.
- I wish I could call all my lost stuff, like I do my cell phone, and find it.
- I wish there was a decent Indian food restaurant in the suburbs where I live.
- I wish I could work full time as a mental health counselor without taking a huge pay cut.
- I wish CD's didn't scratch.
- I wish I could see around other people's cars.
- I wish Conservatives would actually conserve, and that Democrats were more democratic.
- I wish we spent as much money of the health and education of people as we do on war.
- I wish I could turn the volume down on barking dogs.
- I would I were more organized.
- I wish people that thought understanding mathematics is as important as reading.
- I wish I'd met Sweet Baboo much earlier than I did.
- I wish summertime were longer.
- I wish college wasn't so expensive.
I wish.
What do you wish?
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I wish I had the secret to keeping my body young forever and that I had not abused it those years ago..
ReplyDeleteI wish chips were good for you.
ReplyDeleteI wish I could get paid to work out (and paid well mind you)
I wish I would have started reading your blog the day you started writing it
I wish I would have not let myself go from 18 year old athlete to 38 year old tub of lard to 39 year old quasi athlete
I wish everyone knew how fun it is to run and bike.
I wish you guys were my neighbors.
I wish I had my hearing back
ReplyDeleteI wish my brother didn't have retnial cancer
I wish the neighbors would move away
I wish for unlimited wishes
i wish more people had a sense of humor.
I wish teenagers had a return policy sometimes.
ReplyDeleteI wish I had been older when I started having kids.
I wish my last college class was over and homework was done!
I wish I had more time and less responsibility.
I wish the neighbor kids would not get on the trampoline outside my bedroom window at 7am EVERY saturday and sunday.
I wish I could be the parent home with my kids.
ReplyDeleteI wish my house (and salary) were big enough that we could have more kids.
I wish I had more energy sometimes to be a more patient parent.
I wish that I accepted more often how lucky I am to have what I have and not wish for other stuff.
I wish I could be a stay at home Dad.
ReplyDeleteI wish I was as good of a spouse as my wife is.
I wish Ironman had Clydesdale and Athena Divisions at the world championships.
I wish my daughter wasn't growing up so quickly.
I wish I was a better Christian.
I wish all children could be happy and feel safe.
I wish I wasn't complacent at my career.
I wish I didn't have social anxiety.
I wish star-trek transporters really existed.
ReplyDeleteI wish it stayed 75 outside here year round.
I wish carbon bikes cost, like, $200.
I wish the house would clean itself.
I wish I wasn't a procrastinator
ReplyDeleteI wish my house wasn't so messy (not I didn't say I wish I was better at cleaning - I wish someone ELSE would clean it!)
I wish I didn't always sabotage myself
I wish for world peace
I wish a certain person... never mind that one.
I wish I were outside biking right now instead of inside pretending to work - hey, maybe I can make that one come true!
I wish I could spend more time with my family - all of them - even those that I don't particularly like to spend time with.
ReplyDeleteI wish I could somehow make the world a better place.
I wish I could help my friend who is dying of anorexia get better. I do. I wish I could just take that away.
ReplyDeleteI wish I weren't so afraid of things on my bike like going downhill, and cars.
I wish I didn't have monthly freakouts.
I wish I would have met up with you at the Deuce's Wild race....I bet we would have had a lot to talk about.
ReplyDeleteOH YEAH..I wish my feet looked more like yours! :-)
ReplyDeleteI wish that Duane had a good race today! I wish I could have been there.
ReplyDeleteI wish there was peace on earth.
ReplyDeleteI wish all kids would be healthy and safe.
I wish there was no more sickness.
I wish no animal would get mistreated, tested on or kill.
I wish that I never let myself gain all that weight back.
And to copy you because that is sooooo cute, I wish I had met my lovey years earlier to(but of course that would have probably put me in jail) :)
"I wish I could call all my lost stuff, like I do my cell phone, and find it."
ReplyDeleteThat's the most brilliant wish I've ever heard. And it is now MY wish.