Fresh today · Sunday, 12 July

New Wishes

A handful of wishes pulled from the cabinet this morning. Pick one up — copy, save it to your pinboard, or send it on.

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Wishes in the library
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I hope you become someone who keeps their promises and gives others room to keep theirs.

I hope you become a person who is hard to flatter and easy to thank.

I hope you become unafraid of change and unsurprised by hard chapters.

I hope you become someone who knows their own mind and listens to others' anyway.

I hope you become a person whose presence is its own gift.

I hope you become brave enough to be wrong out loud and to fix it just as loudly.

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I hope you become someone who knows the small joys hold up better than the big ones.

I hope you become a person who finds work that fits you and people who fit too.

I hope you become unafraid to be the first one to apologize.

I hope you become someone whose home is a soft place for the people you love.

I hope you become a person who reads the room and chooses kindness anyway.

I hope you become brave in ways you'll never have to explain.

I hope you become someone the world is genuinely glad showed up.

I hope you become a person who knows how to rest without guilt.

I hope you become unafraid of joy. Some people never quite manage it.

I hope you become someone who builds, who repairs, who returns kindness with interest.

I hope you become the kind of person the rest of us look up to without saying so.

I hope I become the kind of parent you'll always come home to.

I hope I become a person you are proud to call yours.

I hope I become patient on the days when patience is the only useful thing left.

I hope I become someone who listens to you better than I was listened to.

I hope I become the kind of parent who knows when to step in and when to step back.

I hope I become brave enough to apologize first, often, and well.

I hope I become the kind of mother (or father) who tells you the hard truth gently.

I hope I become the steady ground under your bravest decisions.