^Whenever I go home to Austin in the winter, they’re having a cold spell. Doesn’t matter if it’s November or February! It also seems to rain any other time of the year I visit, even when they’re in the middle of a drought.
I wish I lived closer to both of my kids.
I would wish that I could be guaranteed a full decade of good health, both physical and mental, and that then I would die peacefully in my sleep one night. No slowly increasing decline.
I have had two serious cancers, and am in treatment for the second currently. All else in my life is very good, and even with this condition I have been relatively fortunate – terrific docs and great medical care. But prognosis is guarded and I wish I could count on enjoying a decade of retirement with H, and being a grandparent for that long at least.
On the other hand, if I could count on a guaranteed decade, I might not appreciate every day as I do now.
Plus I realize that after a decade I would likely be greedy for more! 
To be a grandmother would work for me…not looking too promising for that
Fantasy wish is to get to spend more time at the beach each year.
Practical reality as I watch my mom suffer in her wheelchair with dementia is to want to have physical and mental health until I die. I would give up 10 years of my life to live actively and alertly right up to my death.
The talent and stamina to finish my dream project.
My wish is that after college my son settles on the east coast. Because if he returns to the west coast, where my daughter also lives, then I won’t be able to have my real wish, which is to move back near friends and family!
I’ve already had my most selfish wish come true, which was to move to a warm weather climate. Had to uproot my husband and throw my birdie out of the nest (for the second time) to make this happen. So would it be selfish to have another selfish wish? If not, my magic selfish wish would be for my feet to become normal - no bunions, no hammer toe, etc. - so I could always walk without pain and so that I could find cuter shoes.
I want to live in a lighthouse on a bluff in Maine or some craggy coast. DH would rather have a daily colonoscopy, so it will never happen.
I don’t think it’s at all selfish to wish for good physical and mental health. I’m sure this would make your families very happy, too!
I’d wish for the governing bodies of wish-fulfillment to reward altruism rather than selfishness
To have enough money to be able to retire and move to the coast.
I want what Burgess Meredith wanted in his “Twilight Zone” - enough time to read (and I don’t need glasses).
Wait, I just thought of another famous one I agree with: “I’ll have what she’s having!” 
I worry about my memory so my wish is to keep my faculties about me, along with strong physical health until the end and, when the time comes, go peacefully in my sleep.
Seems we have a lot of shorter women here…I used to be 5’3 but am just 5.2.5" now. Appears some of us shrink as we get older. I’ve never minded my height, though.
Well, yes, but since my two live 1300 miles away from each other, that’s impossible. So I had better think of something else.
Now that we’re sixtysomethings who have long been empty nesters, I want to move into an apartment in a walkable urban neighborhood. It need not be far from where we live now; there are plenty of suitable places in the metropolitan area where we currently live. But my husband would rather have that daily colonoscopy than give up our house.
That my husband of four years would get on board with the future goals we formed together prior to our marriage. Apparently he didn’t realize the sacrifices and determination it would take to make them happen.
And I’m with those posters under 5’2 and gaining weight. Ideal weight for a person in middle age at this height: 120-125# Really? I haven’t seen those numbers since my early 30s.
I know this is for fun but some of us are so lucky that our wish doesn’t include better health…I am extremely thankful for my good (albeit overweight) health.
This is the most selfish wish I could think of, but I do have it: To start over.
One selfish wish would be to receive lots of money!
To have a job that was guaranteed - my position is grant funded and I get tired of the worry and work that must be done to keep my job - never knowing what the next year brings. Having to literally earn the $$ to keep your job and program going. It’s mentally exhausting.
5’3 - 5’4 is short?