Wishing

11:11! Whenever I see that on my clock I feel like my body subconsciously knew I needed a wish. Sometimes you just need a wish. I know I am a very blessed girl. My house accommodates my needs. My family is loving, supportive, and shows me just what unconditional love means. My boyfriend is probably one of the better men in this world and makes me very happy. I have the best friends; the kind who go to lifting with me even when they don’t have time or drive me to the City employment office so I can become a lifeguard over the summer. I have every material object I need to live a happy life, and I have the emotional support needed for me to grow into a woman who makes a difference. So before I start my wishing talk, I want all of you to know that I am aware I have more than most and that I am truly grateful for all I have.

But something is just fun about wishing! About deciding what you want and feeling like somehow it just HAS to come true.  I pray before I go to sleep and “wish I may… wish I might, have the wish I wish tonight” my way through the stars in the sky until I’m too exhausted to wish any longer. I wish for little things, like a new bow for my hair or a chance to go to Orange Leaf with friends over the weekend. I wish for bigger things, like permission to go on a ski trip my friends have been planning for a while or a pretty necklace from my boyfriend for my birthday.  I wish for grand things, like to have a clue about where I want to go to college or to be able to be enlightened about how I can best serve the human race. I wish for everything and anything, material and non-.

Someday I hope that I can get a clue where all these wishes have gone. A lot of the time they come true surprisingly, but that may just be through my very persuasive ways and won’t-take-no-for-an-answer-demeanor. But even if that is the case, and wishes don’t come true by some magical force or fairy godmother, I still believe wishing holds some very serious value. It is kind of like a blog-diary, only purely in your head. You can ask for anything you want and just put it out there for the world to know you want it. It is a goal for you. Maybe it helps show you that you need to build up some good karma to get all those wishes to come true. After all, don’t good things happen to good people? Put good out in the world and you will receive good in return? The Secret ™?  I don’t know if it all quite works that way, but it would sure be nice if it did. Good is a bit vague though. Too bad all those who prophesize about how to have a great life didn’t bother to tell us just what “good” is and how we should go about it. Minor flaw, but hopefully someday someone will figure it out. And if they do, how happy I will be.  I have quite a few wishes going out on those stars and I need a little good karma to get the wish granting process a flowing.

Any thoughts on good out there? Please feel free to share.

Sincerely Sydney