QotD is a feature dedicated to answering questions from Piccadilly’s 5 Year Question a Day Memory Journal. The journal states its purpose is to help reflect back on daily routine and to act as a “time capsule” of experiences. As someone who laments their awful memory, I thought this was a wonderful tool and opportunity.

---

What is the most recent thing you’ve wished for?

At this monent in time, I couldn’t tell you.

If I am being honest, however. I try to go out of my way to not wish for anything. Not because I don’t want to sound ungrateful or unhappy, but because bad things happen.

I am a fairly skeptical person. I don’t believe in much of the metaphysical nor am I religious or spiritual.

However, any time I ever wish for something, regardless of if it was verbal or not, that wish comes true with negative consequences.

For example, the first time I noticed it was back when I worked my first job out of high school. I was going to college full time and worked 50+ hours a week. I was tired, and I had a day where I wished I could rest or have time off but I couldn’t afford it.

Not even a week later, I slipped in the dish room trying to catch a falling glass, and butchered my hands when I fell on top of the glass as it shattered beneath me. I had to have stitches, and the company was found to be responsible for not having safety measures in place to prevent my slipping. I also don’t do drugs so they couldn’t pin that on me. Because of this, I had to take a couple paid weeks off while my hands healed. This also coincide with my break for school so I had an entire week where I could rest and not have to worry about work or college.

If this was a one time thing, I would have just passed it off as an isolated incident. However, this genuinely happens every time I wish for something, to the point that the people around me have noticed. Sometimes when certain things happen, my partner Slade will look at me and asked me what I wished for.

So I just make it a point to not wish for anything.