[ WP ] You meet a genie that grants one wish . You wish to go back in time and change your biggest mistake . You get taken back to the time right before you made your wish .

`` Well,'' spoke the bearded man in the vibrant blue zoot suit, `` phenomenal cosmic power at your command, what is your desire?'' 
 I glared at him and shot, `` Are all genies this impatient or is it part of some trick to get me to waste my wish? You got any where to be?'' He shrugged in response. `` Then give me a moment to word this right.'' I wanted to change my biggest mistake, but a life time of media consumption made me paranoid about messing with history and just going through the hell of it again. That's it! Learn from your mistakes and erase them... 
 `` You have the look of someone that knows what they want.'' He jutted his curly haired chin at me, folded his arms, and affected his best Robin Williams impression, `` What do you wish of me?'' 
 Standing proud, I stated, `` I wish I had never made my biggest mistake, but to remember what it and what it's consequences are.'' 
 With a nod and sobering compassionate tone, `` it is done.'' 
 I stood there, expecting flashing lights, a fade to black, many colored smokes -- something to fill my senses as the change occurred, but nothing happened. The flamboyant spirit just stood there looking expectantly at me. `` What now?'' I asked with a whine. 
 `` Your biggest mistake is...'' his expression was a mix of suspicion and the playfulness of a friend. Crap, did I need to spell it out? Is that the loophole that screws me? Wait no, no magic happened, so he's probably clarifying. I went to speak about the time my my best friend in highschool did a 180 and took advantage of my body, but the words would n't come forth -- instead there were tears. Suddenly, I was questioning the truth of it, did I just fabricate the whole experience to get away from that frenemy's undermining? It is so real in my mind though, the pain of that betrayal so clear, had I only stabbed myself in sacrifice for social escape? I fell to my knees, clutching my hair in preparation to tear it out. 
 `` There, there.'' the genie patted my huddled mass. `` Now you have the story that can take you forward.''
