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• angelm

  

  richmond ky.
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  Dec 30, 2005, 6:10 pm

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  MONEY!!If I chose youth all my family and friends wuold still grow old around me-that wouldn't seem to great!Besides,I am 36 but I feel 20!
• BaristaExpress

  

  Magnolia, Delaware
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  Jan 3, 2006, 9:49 pm

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  MONEY HANDS DOWN!

  Keep dreaming the impossible dream, it just may come true!
• TheGameGrl

  

  A long and winding road
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  Pffft...I'd tell the Genie to give me my THREE wishes , since when does a genie only give one wish! Someone is pocketing the other two!

  Seriously I doubt it would be money...I recall the guy from a twilight zone series who wished just for that. Got all the money, youth and lived a well knowledged life. The only problem was, the way he got his money bestowed was because his wife died in a car accident so he got a huge insurance claim, He got his youth and regretted not being taken seriously , Became well knowledged (booksmart) and the average person got bored with his rantings that appeared superior ...So what good is life if the things that YOU really value, family, friends and good moments are not there ....

  So I'll simply ask the genie a riddle and find out once and for all which came first, the chicken or the egg! :)

  Count your smiles.
• sirbrad

  

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  Also the Twilight Zone episode with the guy who got everything he wanted forever, he sunk every billiard ball he shot, got all the women in the world he wanted every day, had unlimited income etc. He became a victim in his own paradise, a paradise which was actually "hell." He became enraged, and went insane that he was absolutely perfect at everything. He then made every single billiard ball on the break alone, then snapped the stick in anger.

  That is why many wish for so much, because it seems as though we have so little. But sometimes not getting every single thing you want is a blessing in disguise, and actually helps us grow stronger and wiser - as well as instilling the proper values and character traits needed to survive. This is a bad question to ask people on a lottery forum, as the main objective here is the desire of money. On a spiritual forum you would get the exact opposite answers.

   True wealth comes from the appreciated of what you have now, not living in the future and being miserable in the present. See "Life 101," and "Wealth 101" - Getting What You Want, Enjoying What You got for further study. People always strive for what they don't have, few actually appreciate all they do have, and take much for granted.