Getting older and looking back
When I was in middle school I used to go to sleep every night dreaming what I would do with three wishes. They were typically
- To be the best soccer player in the world. Sometimes I would wish to be the best athlete in the world, but most often it was just soccer.
- To be the smartest person that ever lived.
- To have every girl in the world have a crush on me.
Now that I have turned 23 (today!) and am getting on in my years, I have to look back on the dreams I had in my youth and see if I have accomplished any of them.
Nope. Nope. And nope.
Well, shit.
4 December 2006 06:00am UTC • 724 views • 16 comments
Tagged with middleschool, wishes, dreams, reminisce, birthday
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Carpenter Courtney
4 December 2006 12:41pm UTC
Happy Birthday, favorite coworker!
Good luck on #2--that's also my goal. And #3. :P
Boatswain The Fool
4 December 2006 03:14pm UTC
I don't know... Have you talked to every girl in the world? I think that you might have #3 in the bag.
Tim
4 December 2006 04:21pm UTC
So apparently my old username died a horrible death. I blame Courtney. Aaaanyway... just wanted to say happy birthday!
-Tim
Dread Pirate Benjamin
4 December 2006 04:26pm UTC
Omer, you make an interesting point. Perhaps I'll reevaluate my life...
Tim, thanks!
Peon Peetie
4 December 2006 05:44pm UTC
wait, you mean you're not the same benjamin thomas that plays soccer and has girls hanging all over him while solving those NP-complete problems?
Kate the Quiet
4 December 2006 08:40pm UTC
Happy Birthday!!
Don't you think #3 would be such a curse?? Especially when it comes to the jealous types (I hear girls can be jealous)...people could get hurt!
Boatswain The Fool
4 December 2006 09:51pm UTC
Kate's comment brings to mind yet another potential downfall of having #3 as a wish. What if the genie/djinn granting your wish took you literally, and several billion people started crushing you?
People could get hurt!
Carpenter Courtney
4 December 2006 10:48pm UTC
To die in a literal crush of women--that might not be the worst way to go!
The Anonymous Poppy
5 December 2006 03:18am UTC
Actually, I think suffocation (most likely cause of death by crushing, I assume) is pretty bad no matter what.
Happy Birthday, though!
Boots
5 December 2006 12:13pm UTC
Yes, this might be a case where breast isn't best.
...although the image of anyone being crushed by a million breasts is amusing.
Carpenter Courtney
5 December 2006 02:16pm UTC
I think that (the image of someone being crushed by a million breasts) should be the new Breast Cancer Awareness Month logo.
Dread Pirate Benjamin
5 December 2006 04:01pm UTC
"Pay attention to breast cancer, or we'll make you pay ... with your life!"
Carpenter Courtney
5 December 2006 05:42pm UTC
When is prostate cancer awareness month? Or better (worse?) yet, colon cancer awareness month?
Eeew.
Boots
5 December 2006 06:04pm UTC
I believe the proper response to your question was written by the Dread Pirate Benjamin at the end of this post, and that was
"Well, shit."
Peon Peetie
16 January 2008 04:00pm UTC
that happened in a buffy episode i watched recently, where xander tried to get back at cordelia but messed up. (sort of the gypsy curse, but the actual mistake was the witch's. it was deep. really deep.) xander had allll the women (not just girls) after him, and they all wound up trying to kill everyone because that's the way women really are sometimes. they like to kill everyone. with axes. and i think someone had a teddy bear or something. but mainly axes.
Sailing Master Keri
16 January 2008 08:54pm UTC
I was thinking of that episode too, Pete!