{"id":16943,"date":"2025-10-30T21:11:38","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T04:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/?p=16943"},"modified":"2025-10-30T21:11:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T04:11:38","slug":"pw3-if-you-had-three-wishes-what-would-you-use-them-for-and-what-might-go-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/pw3-if-you-had-three-wishes-what-would-you-use-them-for-and-what-might-go-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"PW#3 &#8211; If you had three wishes, what would you use them for \u2026 and what might go wrong?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">If I had three wishes, I would wish to be happy all the time, successful in everything I try, and stay healthy. Being happy all the time would let me stay\u00a0joyful and cheerful\u00a0no matter what happens. The good side of this is that I would always find a reason to be happy, but if I were always happy, I might never learn how to stand up again when I am facing big challenges.\u00a0I think I would hate myself always being happy out of context, like something serious happens and I can\u2019t react other than being happy.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0My second wish, which is being successful in everything I try, would\u00a0bring achieving my goals much easier and faster. However, people\u00a0learn from their mistakes and if I were successful in everything, I would lose motivation and never get a chance to learn from my mistakes. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">My last wish, which is staying healthy, would protect me from illness, injury, and keep me away from other health problems. But if this wish turns out to be never aging or living forever, I will lose an important part of life. For example, if I stop aging in my twenties, I will never feel like I&#8217;m thirty or forty when I\u2019m in that age.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I had three wishes, I would wish to be happy all the time, successful in everything I try, and stay healthy. Being happy all the time would let me stay\u00a0joyful and cheerful\u00a0no matter what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16944,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16943\/revisions\/16944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}