Meaning
An expression we use when you want to express a want or desire. To think about and express our desire for a situation we wish were true in the present or future.
Today’s Sentences
- I wish I were richer.
- I wish I were thinner.
- I wish I were younger.
- I wish I were on a beach.
- I wish I were running outside.
- Writer’s Note
01
I wish I were richer.
Situation 1
Here’s your mail.
More bills.
What else is new?
Are you in a mood?
What’s going on?
I wish I were richer.
I’m so sick of paying bills.
Situation 2
I wish I were richer.
Don’t we all.
But I mean like super rich.
So rich that all you can do is spend.
Would that really make you happier?
02
I wish I were thinner.
Situation 1
I wish I were thinner.
You look perfectly beautiful to me.
Is it about what others think?
Yes and no.
I wanna feel good about myself.
Maybe focus on your inner self and why you feel like you need to be thinner.
Situation 2
Look at these models.
I recognize some of them.
I wish I were thinner.
These models can wear whatever they want.
I think you look perfectly beautiful the way you are.
Isn’t that more important?
03
I wish I were younger.
Situation 1
I’m starting to look middle aged.
No, you don’t.
You look very young for your age.
I wish I were younger.
Well, how about wishing you could age gracefully instead of wishing for something that is impossible.
Situation 2
Should I go see a dermatologist?
Why?
Well, I wish I were younger.
I wish I looked younger too.
I support you in any decision you make.
Even if that means going under the knife to look younger.
04
I wish I were on a beach.
Situation 1
I wish I were on a beach.
That sounds amazing.
Laying on the sand around sunset with a drink in one hand and a book in the other.
I’m looking at tickets, as we speak.
Situation 2
You’ve been so stressed these past few months.
Do you need to get away?
I wish I were on a beach.
Tell you what.
I’ll send you to the beach, just choose if you’d rather go alone or together.
Together, of course!
05
I wish I were running outside.
Situation 1
Damn this weather.
I know.
It’s just too hot to go anywhere or do anything.
I wish I were running outside.
Let’s go for a run as soon as this heatwave dies.
Situation 2
I wish I were running outside.
You can run all you want when you get better.
This cast is so itchy.
Hopefully, you’ll recover fully from your broken leg.
Writer’s Note
What is the difference between were and was?
Were and was are both past tense versions of the verb to be. But were is usually used in relation to second person singular and plural pronouns such as you, your, yours. And a handful of times it could be used with first and third person plural pronouns such as we, they.
We use was, on the other hand, when we’re using the first person singular pronoun or when using the third person singular such as he or she.
For example, you wouldn’t say, ‘You was going to the gym. You would say, ‘You were going to the gym.’
But you would say, ‘I was going to the gym’ rather than ‘I were going to the gym.’
In a nutshell, I wish I were = grammatically correct
