"as harsh/sad/strange as it sounds"

sometimes i wish i was a writer

sometimes i wish i was a reader

sometimes i wish my dad would call me first

sometimes i wish i never watched tv

sometimes i wish people would depend on me

sometimes i wish my mother would cook dinner just for us

sometimes i wish every christmas wasn't in a different home

sometimes i wish my stepmother never tried so hard

sometimes i wish my friends were more reliable

sometimes i wish alcoholism wasn't something i grew up around

sometimes i wish people would understand why rather than look at me as prudish/closed-minded

sometimes i wish i could cook more than four different recipes

sometimes i wish my mom listened more when she's sober

sometimes i wish my dad wasn't better with eight year olds than eighteen year olds

sometimes i wish my dad's side of the family talked more about important things

sometimes i wish people could find a way to be both honest and forgiving

sometimes i wish jake and i never broke up

sometimes i wish i never hung around nate for those couple of weeks

sometimes i wish i never talked to bas about certain things

sometimes i wish i never talked to lots of people about certain things

sometimes i wish my mom wasn't rude to people

sometimes i wish my mom didn't feel so insecure

sometimes i wish people wouldn't judge the situation with my dad

sometimes i wish my sister or mom would go take a walk with me

sometimes i wish i was determiend enough to take a walk alone

sometimes i wish i still had a bicycle

sometimes i wish i knew what exactly i wanted in life

sometimes i wish vermont wasn't so far away

sometimes i wish i could know who the person is upstairs who coughs all night and day

sometimes i wish i could know if they're alright

sometimes i wish living in so many different neighborhoods didn't make me ignore my neighbors

sometimes i wish someone would just come give me a job

sometimes i wish people would just ask me all the reasons why i don't have one rather than try to make me believe i'm pathetic for it

sometimes i wish the friends i used to have would talk to me like they used to

sometimes i wish we didn't ignore any sign that the other might not be okay

sometimes i wish my sister still lived here

sometimes i wish everyone in the world cared at least a little about our environment

sometimes i wish i had stuck with ballet

sometimes i wish i could hang out in the woods without freaking out about ticks

sometimes i wish i never brought you camping that second time

sometimes i wish i wasn't leaving

sometimes i wish i didn't climb out the window

sometimes i wish i talked more to my grandmother

sometimes i wish i had all of my classes with mrs. brinkman

sometimes i wish i could freak out on all of the people in my advisory

sometimes i wish people didn't think it was cool or comfortable to be mean to another

sometimes i wish started the green life club back up again at school before now

sometimes i wish people didn't tell me to talk quieter

sometimes i wish i exercised

sometimes i wish i wasn't a hypochondriac

sometimes i wish i wasn't such a packrat

sometimes i wish i could save everything i value in a file cabinet like the one God has in bruce almighty

sometimes i wish i enjoyed cleaning

sometimes i wish a train went to bennington

sometimes i wish i wasn't so physically weak

sometimes i wish my mom didn't try so hard to impress guys

sometimes i wish my dad had come to my grandmother's funeral

sometimes i wish my father still brought home bill's pizza for the last couple of years that we visited

sometimes i wish i wasn't the first one to reach out and that even when i am, it means something

sometimes i wish i never did and never would feel like the littlest things are unsaid competitions

sometimes i wish i prayed more aloud or on my knees