Ask Baba Yaga: What Happens If Everything I’ve Ever Wanted Comes True?

Taisia Kitaiskaia
The Hairpin
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1 min readJan 22, 2014

Baba,

What happens if everything I’ve ever wanted comes true?

BABA YAGA:

Then — the part of you that’s never wanted will sit alone, & be very quiet at first, & small. & You will be despondent, & cast about for more things to want. ;Don’t. Tremendous luck : has brought you to the place you should’ve lived in all this while. ,Let the small( one be yr largest dweller, & guide you through the barren landscape that has been yrself, & which you must now populate with the real things.

Previously: Should I Make a Vision Board?”

Taisia Kitaiskaia is a poet, writer, and Michener Center for Writers fellow. She’s taking questions on behalf of Baba Yaga at AskBabaYaga@gmail.com.

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Taisia Kitaiskaia
The Hairpin

Author of #LiteraryWitches (@SealPress 2017) with @katyhoranart and #AskBabaYaga (forthcoming from @AndrewsMcMeel).