Practicality itself

Here's a nice sap-free list for you. It's things I have at one point or another wished for. This includes when I was a little kid. The ones with asterisks are the ones that I believe actually came true.

Be a virtuoso pianist.
Be a great ballerina.
Climb a mountain.*
Travel the world.
Go to college.*
Graduate from college.
Act in a Shakespearean comedy.*
Have a kittycat.*
Have a dog.*
Have a pony/horse.
Get my music recorded.
Learn a bunch of foreign languages.
Learn to play the violin and practically every other musical instrument.
Not have to worry about money.
To be just a bit smaller. Shorter and lighter.
More time to spend outdoors and out of town.
Respect.
To be pretty.
To be sexy.
Wake up one day and have a really nice singing voice.
Find a bunch of people who were wonderful musicians and just wanted to sit around and play with me all day.
Unknowingly inspire someone to write a poem for me.*
Unknowingly inspire a person to sing a song for me.*
Reliable transportation.*
Be a really good martial artist in every sense of those words (mentally and physically).
Make my mom proud.
Be someone's hero.
Be a movie star.
Be a stage actor.
Be a fire truck.
Find a true love... ?*?
and marry him...
and live happily ever after.
A decent-paying job that's also fun and interesting.*
Meet Kermit the Frog.
Be a doctor.
Be a nurse.
Be a teacher.
Become wise.
Sail around the Great Lakes on a tall ship.
See the Sistine Chapel.
Age gracefully.
Understand people.
Be loved.*
Walk on my hands.
To feel like I mattered. I made a difference.*
Be the kind of person who helps strangers.*
Be brave.*
Memorize a great anthology of poetry.
Make up my own language.
Be able to paint & draw.
Be a grown-up.
Be a kid again.
Have a munchkin.*
Have more than one munchkin.
A nice place to live.*
Be Katherine Hepburn.