[ 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 .

I looked at the genie before me with full conviction through weary eyes. If I only had one wish, I'd use it for a second chance. 
 
 `` Take me back in time to my biggest mistake, so I can have a second chance at living my life,'' I told the wispy being hovering before me. He was soft, like a cloud, yet somehow rugged at the same time. 
 
 `` As you wish,'' he replied. `` May I ask, before you go- what do you believe your biggest mistake is?'' 
 
 Easy question. `` Keeping my son. When the doctors told us how hard it would be to raise him... I wanted to be brave. To feel comviction. I wanted to reaffirm my strength and help him live the best life possible. 
 
 `` I was horribly wrong.'' 
 
 `` And why is that, human?'' 
 
 `` I lost my entire life trying to help him. Sleepless nights, fits where he barely knows who I am. I want my life back. I want another chance to spend my days doing something I love, maybe pick up a better career or just fucking *relax* some nights. I already did it once, and now I want a break.'' 
 
 `` I see.'' The genie snapped its fingers, the cracking sound of lightning resounding through my small home. `` May you find peace.'' 
 
 I closed my eyes and felt a lightness take over me, knowing that when I'd open them, it'd all be over. It'd be easy, and fun. But all I saw was his face, floating in the dark of my mind. Smiling about nothing at all. *I wish I could be happy like that. * 
 
 When my eyes opened, the genie was still before me. `` I do n't understand. Was there a glitch?'' 
 
 `` I know not of what you speak, human. Make your wish.'' 
 
 `` I made my wish already, take me the fuck back.'' 
 
 `` To where? I know not of your wants. 
 
 *What is this? Why am I here, if... * 
 
 `` Tell me your wish, human. Choose wisely.'' 
 
 I went to speak it again, but the words caught in my throat. I saw his face again, not the one he made during a fitful rage, but the one when he calmed down and looked into my eyes afterward. 
 
 `` I wish I were a better father.'' 
 
 The genie let out a laugh from the deepest portion of its belly. `` I can not grant a wish which has already been granted to you.'' 
 
 With that, he was gone. And in a way, I felt relieved that he was. 
 
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 ^*/r/resonatingfury*
