The Third Wish
An elderly man was sitting alone on a dark path. He wasn’t sure of which direction to go, and he’d forgotten both where he was traveling to…and who he was.
He’d sat down for a moment to rest his weary legs, and suddenly looked up to see an elderly woman before him.
She grinned toothlessly and with a cackle, spoke: “Now your third wish. What will it be?”
“Third wish?” The man was baffled. “How can it be a third wish if I haven’t had a first and second wish?”
“You’ve had two wishes already,” the hag said, “but your second wish was for me to return everything to the way it was before you had made your first wish. That’s why you remember nothing; because everything is the way it was before you made any wishes.” She cackled at the poor man. “So it is that you have one wish left.”
“All right,” he said hesitantly, “I don’t believe this, but there’s no harm in trying. I wish to know who I am.”
“Funny,” said the old woman as she granted his wish and disappeared forever. “That was your first wish…”
Man, I love this one!
OH SHIT.
Yeah, sucks for him.
I liked this one!
Is there something I’m missing?
Why would he possibly want to forget who he is?
You’ve definitely posted this before.
You know, I totally thought I had, too… but I can’t seem to find it, so I guess I didn’t?
Am I losing my mind?
Ah, I’ve read this before, though I’m not sure it was on this site.
I read this on some other creepypasta site, but not this one.
Anyhow, I really like this. Again, it’s vague, but has a wonderful story behind it…
@5
If you’re losing you’re mind then so are we. I’m sure I saw it here too.
Still, it’s one of the best. I love it
Re: P4inkiller:
He wanted to know who he was, not forget. Until of course, he found who he was and hated it or was scared by it and wished to forget it.
i really like this one its great
Favorite one ever, it’s not creppy, but makes you think and it’s really well writen.
Ooh, very clever.
LOL funny dude
I liked it too but Its almost a word for word copy of something that happened in the Planescaoe campaign setting. The nameless one has that exact conversation with a witch. the onyl difference is that the witch doesnt disappear forever. she just leaves.
maybe he was the same old man that lost his legs and is gonna chase you with his stubs if you let him talk after midnight…=\
But…WHO WAS HAG?
i read this when it first came out on this site.
i just realized what had happened in it at about 9:30 pm last night.
g’damn.
I like big circles of madness like this. Nice!
wishes
1. to know who i am
2. to forget who i am
3. to remember who i am
ok if you were you, you would already know who you are right?
THEN WHO WAS MAN?
wow he must have been really bad too forget himself, in a way its kind of a sad story but very clever
very clever indeed, i like it!
on my last wish i would wish for 3 more wishes
LOL the man got told what his second wish was, did it not occur to him to ask about his first…or would that have been a wish o_0
Oh, I really like this one. Brings my imagination to life
THEN WHO WAS PREVIOUS IDENTITY?!?!?
@26
JACK THE RIPPER.
-brick’d-
So………….this old guy wanted to remember who he was, then he wanted to forget, then he wanted to remember again?
@28
i agree, what a dumbass, why not wish back to the moment before he wished so he could make more wishes
just glad he didn’t wish to divide by zero…
kidding, I realy like this one
BY THE POWER OF MATTHEW PERRY I DEMAND YOU BE BEGON UGLY HAG.
@ 19, 28
You read it wrong. He must’ve had some sort of trauma and forgot who he was, met this witch who gave him three wishes. He wanted to remember who he was was his first wish. Who he was scared him or something, and his second wish was for it to be like he never made his first wish. So, he forgot everything back to before he made his first wish. A creepypasta indeed, and a very good one at that. It really makes you think.
Well said Sean. =D
Planescape: Torment rip-off.
nice
For those who were wondering if they were sanity was going down the drain, because of the familiarity of this story, have no fear (which is actually not the intent of this site) because here is the link to the where it was posted:
http://creepypasta.tumblr.com/
This story is from Planescape Torment
I like this one. Makes you wonder who he was or what he did that was so horrible he wished to not be able to remember anything about it.
lol he got self owned
Oh hello there Morte. I didn’t know you could access the internet from Sigil.
Lol. I love this pasta. Nummy.
Gets ya thinking about where he was going. Maybe he was running away from something he did? Or who knows?
“I R BABOON!!”
Yeah, I’d want to forget too.
Ouch..
BUT WHO WAS SECOND WISH?
i would have wished for more wishes
This is excellence. A series of surprising twists all packed into a few paragraphs. And it’s food for thought. BUT WHO WAS MAN’S REAL IDENTITY?
Honestly, what person wouldn’t go and ask, “Well, what did I wish for already? After all, I don\’t want to make a repeat wish!’’
She did tell him his second wish, after all, so she has no rules against asking
Also, fucking site keeps putting crap where I put quotes and apostrophes. Maybe this will do the trick >.>