A story about... A Wish c. 1999/2000 Mark Frey, Tymme Laun, Christine Schwab, and Sally Treanor	SALLY	MARK
				CHRISTINE
			TYMME	MARK & CHRISTINE
				CHRISTINE & MARK
			CHRISTINE

Of course, hope springs eternal. Eventually, the person realized that what was gained was not freedom from wishes and hopes but freedom to shape wishes and hopes unselfconsciously, without regard for whether a particular wish was "the right one." The person decided there was no such thing as a "wasted" wish, save one which was not truly meant or felt. The drive to realize a wish, to meet the future head-on with purpose in hand, provided the direction the person had felt was lost.

CMS With this understanding fully in mind, the person began to wish wishes in earnest. And as s/he got more practice in focusing on truly meaning his/er wishes, s/he found that s/he could do amazing things! S/he could make people understand what s/he meant, without explaining eight times. S/he could get his/er cats to stop scratching the furniture without yelling. S/he started experimenting with levitation, teleportation, and cloning his/erself at will. Eventually, without really having wished it at all, s/he became the most powerful person on earth.

And s/he didn't like it. People were bugging him/er all the time. One day, in a fit of pique, s/he said, "I wish all these people would just go away!" And such was the strength of his/er wish, because of his/er long years of practice, that everyone vanished from the face of the planet.

To this day the person wanders about wailing that s/he would take it all back if s/he could. His/er friends have tried to console him/er, but somehow s/he doesn't seem to realize that they're there.