I play fantasy role-playing games, and enjoy sewing crafts, science fiction, fantasy, paleontology, and raising pet hedgehogs. I wish for better health for my son who has food intolerances and gastronomic problems, and better health for my husband who has insomnia and other stress-related problems. I wish for an improvement in the happiness of my marriage, which is going through a slight slump right now although it's still a good relationship. I wish for our computer to be properly fixed. I wish for the contractor to suddenly find time to fix our chimney chase. I wish to win the $15,000 my father-in-law wants for a down payment on a condo in Florida so he can afford his monthly expenses. I wish for my husband to find time to go to the travel agent today to arrange our post-Christmas vacation. I wish that I had in my hand the catalog I was supposed to bring to work today to order my son's Christmas present. I wish for a referral to a reliable maid who will clean our house at an affordable price. I wish for peace on Earth—corny and perhaps impossible, but there are so many people who are suffering and dieing each day that I can't help including it. I wish for improved tolerance and understanding for people who are different, by everyone including myself. It seems like so many of our problems are based on racial, religious, cultural, sexual, and personal style differences. I don't want those differences to be erased, I just want us all to deal with them more calmly and empathetically. I wish for the ability to handle the new job I am beginning this week with competence. I wish for a self-cleaning hedgehog cage. The cage should also be temperature- controlled to prevent hibernation yet allow us to turn down the heat in the house at night. I wish to be healed of all my respiratory allergies to pets and dust. I wish for good ideas for Christmas gifts this year, which will bring joy to the recipients, be affordable, and not impact our environment too negatively. I wish for safety in the woods this hunting season for all hunters and for all innocent people that want to go for walks, etc. I wish for some venison. I wish that the Unitarian church we just began attending will appeal to all of us, sensibly address the questions my son has about God and religion, entice my husband the agnostic into attending, bring me closer to an understanding of my own feelings, and involve us in a caring community which encourages us to get involved and help others. I wish that the gifts I am able to give to charities are well-chosen to do the most good they can. It's so hard to turn down organizations that sound worthwhile, or to know whether I'm choosing the most effective or important ones. I wish to develop a close friend nearby because one of my best friends moved away.

I am currently a graduate student in Computer Science at University of Maryland at College Park. I am interested in travelling, dancing, cooking, and reading. I wish I am talented enough to simultaneously pursue various fields in the natural and social sciences. Pursuing knowledge is one of my three quests in life. I wish to experience the world, its nature, and its people. I wish to travel all over the earth, to see all the natural wonders, taste all the food, meet all kinds of people. To fulfill this quest I wish for time, health, energy, and money. I wish there is a universal language that everyone could understand. I wish the best for my friends and family. I hope to find someone to share my life, my ideals, and my love with. Human relationships are the most precious thing on earth. I wish all human beings are loving, understanding, and give each other respect despite differences in race, class, gender, educational background, nationality. The world would be a much better place to live when the lives on it are happy.

I am a computer geek and UNIX/Network systems administrator. I like movies, outdoors, the beach, music, shopping, and women. I'm a woman who happens to be a male-to-female transsexual. I have a dead serious wish; I hope it's not too much for you! A transsexual's dream.... As long as I can remember I've always wished that I could be a female. There hasn't been a night in my life that I haven't gone to bed wishing that I would wake up as a beautiful female. Living my previous 40 years as a man, I've always viewed woman with the utmost admiration and always found myself wishing I could be one of them. I started a gender reassignment program almost five yeas ago. I've been living as a woman ever since. Most of my wishes are related to this primary wish. For example, I wish I had money to finish the procedure, for cosmetic surgery, breast implants, clothes, etc. I also wish I were a successful business woman. I wish I have enough money to make sure my 14-year-old daughter will live a comfortable life and have everything she needs. I wish I could live a longer life.

I am interested in computer programming, math and golf. I wish I had a programming language that knows what I'm trying to do and self-programs. Life continues to be as much a mystery as it is.

I wish to live in the present and to be able to value everyone's differences without judgements.

I enjoy engineering, hiking, camping, listening to good music, and driving around and working on my '65 VW bus. I wish for a way to earn an income that will support me, while still having all the time to do all the non-paying things I prefer to do. This income can be very small; endless free time is more important than the money. I don't think of this as greedy or lazy; I like to keep myself busy, but no one will pay me to do all the things I do. Okay, so maybe I'm a little lazy.

I should tell you about a wish box I read about and used when I was younger. You just made a box yourself, and decorated it. You wrote your wishes on a piece of paper and put them in a box. When they came true you burnt the paper and put the ash back in the box to help the other wishes along. I believed in this method which is why it probably worked. I don't own the box anymore but my wish box was a great thing. My wish was for the happiness in love to last. I thought about my present boyfriend and wished for that feeling of love to never leave because relationships are often torn apart due to learned behavior patterns, trying to change each other, and not remembering you fell in love with how they were, not how you would like them to be. I wish we can love ourselves.

After recently dropping out of corporate America beat-up yet hopeful, I am currently self-employed. I'm in 'transition.' Who asked, 'It is not enough to be busy, the question is 'What are we busy about?' I'm struggling to keep a step ahead of my bills while I try to learn this life's lessons well enough that I don't have to repeat any courses my next time through. I wish for world peace which can only be achieved when every person has gained inner peace. Inner peace can only be achieved when every person lives surrounded by a higher love which can only be achieved when every person opens their hearts to their own ability to love. Some might say that it's the struggle that keeps people striving forward, but I think that the 'struggle' might limit our ability to see our 'true' potential. A world in which every person feels at peace and complete would be my ultimate wish.

I wish I had enough money to own a beautiful home in the woods, with all of the amenities, so that I could stay home all day, write, play music, garden, and be creative. So far, I have almost always received everything I have wished for—professionally speaking. I wished to become a college level instructor, and I have achieved that goal. But because teaching is time-consuming, I have neither the time nor the resources to do the things which really make me happy: writing and creating music. As an educator, it is almost impossible to make the kind of money and reserve the kind of time I need to really be a productive artist. When I was a student my wishes seemed attainable, because I could translate them into goals. Now all of my wishes seem unattainable, because they center on money and opportunity. I wish my boyfriend could get half-time custody of his children so that he would be happier and wouldn't have to pay so much child support.

I am a Chemical Engineering Major with a long-time interest in fractals. I wish to be satisfied with my life when I'm old. I want to be able to completely live my life and do everything that I've wanted to do. My second wish is to be an astronaut. Flying in space would be an absolute wonder. My third wish is to control time, to stop the clocks every now and then. Control over time would make it easier to appreciate life.

I enjoy hockey, soccer, old movies and talking about philosophy. I'm a Roman Catholic. I wish for the happiness of loved ones gone by.

I am interested in the chromatic harmonica, visualization, creativity, physics, perception, astronomy, and subtle humor. I wish my brother was still alive. I wish Apple had licensed the Mac OS to IBM before Microsoft got into the picture, for an end to human suffering, for a flattening or reduction in population levels; for an end to wildlife habitat destruction, extinction, and loss of diversity; for an end to loss of human diversity, for dark skies unpolluted by upwards-pointing security and display lights, to live forever without significant physical or mental pain, to be able to mentally visualize as clearly as is possible with pencil and paper, for a much-needed increase in intelligence, and finally I wish for the impossible!

I wish to become a successful civil rights attorney, one that would have an impact on the present state of racial inequality in America. I wish to find a wife who would love and care for me as much as I would love and care for her. I wish to truly accept and love myself for who and what I really am physically, intellectually, and spiritually. I wish to have a comfortable relationship with God in which I would understand and accept my role in life, without any doubts or worries. I wish to learn how to play a musical instrument well enough to perform in a major orchestra, preferably the violin or piano. Most of my wishes revolve around spiritual and personal growth and development. I basically want to be comfortable with my career, loved ones, and myself. I also want to help others as much as I possibly can.

I've been using computer since I was 6 years old. I started piano 3 years ago. I love music and love to compose. I'm seeking degrees in Electrical Engineering, computer science, and MIDI music composition and technology. I like the sciences, play Magic the Gathering, and ski. I wish that everyone could hear so that they may enjoy the oldest most advanced form of communication—music. I wish that everyone would have a computer. That way they too can enjoy the wonders cyberspace has to offer. I wish for a female companion. I wish that someday I will be a famous composer or computer guru—that my name will never be forgotten—that I may live in the minds of humans for all times, like Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, Einstein, Hawkings, and the great artists of the renaissance. I wish to be happy!

I like reading, writing, cross-country running, back-packing, animals, traveling, children, and helping others and the environment. I'm applying to the University of California at Davis with possible majors in International Relations, French or French literature, or Russian. I'd love to be a teacher. I'm Catholic and pray every night before bed. I wish for peace on Earth—a peace in which people can accept others' differences, in which people care enough to help one another, and where there is no crime on every other street corner, and people crying over cars in one city and starvation in another. I wish for the world's landmarks to remain as the are; for the rain forests to be rebuilt; for humans to stop polluting our world. I wish for this because I think the world is beautiful and humans are ugly. I wish to travel all over the world, to visit different peoples and cultures as well as different landmarks where I can backpack, mountain climb, and cave. I wish to be in perfect condition to be able to do these things. I love new experiences as well as being an active participant in nature. I wish to be able to speak more than one language fluently so I can speak to other people in their language. I wish for people to be able to communicate and the world to maintain peace and a sense of unity without computers. (I hate technology.) I wish for Jordan to like me and not have a long distance relationship. (I wish this because he was really cute and I really like him, yet he lives in France.) I wish to know which religion is correct because I'm confused, all religions seem correct and I stop believing in God. I wish for life to be simpler, to be allowed to live and enjoy the moment. I wish mermaids existed and I could be one, if only for a day. I wish I can be invisible for one day so that I can see what other people think about me. I wish to be able to fly. I wish for a horse, or, more specifically, a pegasus. I wish to be able to fall asleep within five minutes of wanting to, and to have a deep, dreamless sleep after which I wake up refreshed and able to face a full day. I wish I lived where it snows. I wish to live where the summers aren't as humid, unlike South Carolina where I live. I wish for perfect vision because right now it's -10, and that prevents a lot of fun things—like quickly getting ready for school, bed, or swimming.

I wish I could fight. I wish I could hear movement behind me. I wish I could scent out malevolence. I wish I could use any weapon I wanted, especially my hands. If I could, I would never have to wish for it again. And I could sleep.

I wish that I could be the one who makes First Contact with another sentient species from another planet. I wish to establish an embassy between our species and theirs. I've had this wish since I was a little kid.

I am a computer geek employed in the electronic security industry by one of the baby-bell companies. I love to read and participate in role-playing games My wishes are simple. By whatever means, I'd like myself and my loved ones to always feel happy.

I am a visual artist working in mixed media, collage, and shaped forms. I'm also a librarian focusing on digital and cutting-edge means of providing access to information. My wish is for world peace and for hearts to be filled with joy rather than sorrow. I wish for good health, happiness and long life, for my loved ones including myself

I enjoy reading, computers, and television. I am married and have an 11-year-old daughter. I wish to become a beautiful, sexy, 25-year-old woman any time I wanted. It must be cool to have guys worshipping you just for your body.