Close Your Eyes and Make a Wish

A blog about school will come, probably after the first full week of classes.

For now, let's talk about wishes.

People make lots of wishes. There are so many ways to do it! Wishing at 11:11 PM, wishing on a shooting star, blowing out the candles on the birthday cake, blowing an eyelash, etc etc.

Which wishes take precedence? I'm guessing the 11:11 one is pretty low on the totem pole - that's a regularly occuring, easy wish to make. It's your baseline wish pathway. One of those "enter every day for a chance to win our sweepstakes" kind of things. Shooting stars probably come next. Wait, do they differentiate between different sorts of celestial thingies, like do comet wishes rank higher than meteor wishes? If the meteor hits you, does it really matter what wish you made anyway? Hm. Halley's comet comes around regularly.. so I suppose it ranks lower than these random shooting star wishes, but above the 11:11 wishes, because it happens much less frequently. But if it happens so infrequently, shouldn't it then rank higher than random shooting star wishes? But what if you live in a smoggy area, and seeing a random shooting star is much less likely?

So then.. I suppose birthday wishes rank above random shooting star wishes, but below Halley's comet wishes. It comes around once a year. Does the priority of your wish depend on how many candles you have to blow out? That would make sense. More candles - more talent to blow them all out. But does it make sense to give older people, those that would have more candles on their cakes, higher ranking wishes? Shouldn't the power to wish rest with the starry-eyed idealistic youngsters who dare to wish in the first place? Maybe not.

Do I have to blow out the candles at the exact time of day of my birth? If not, is it then invalid? What sort of penalty will I suffer? Will my wish be ranked lower, get granted to a lesser extent, or be disqualified until next year?

Eyelash wishes don't make sense to me. You have a stack of wishes lining your eyelids that you can use any time you want. And they grow back! Not magical at all. Or is it just when you lose an eyelash accidentally? Well, that's just natural. Taking a dump is natural, but I don't get to make a wish every time I take a dump (even though I really do need the divine intervention at my side during some particularly tricky dumps).

Wait, do wishes rank higher than prayers?

And what's "luck?" Like when you find a penny or walk under a ladder. What's "good luck?" Something good happens for you? Well, I would wish for that anyway. So it's like I've randomly been granted a wish, except I don't decide any parameters about the wish at all. Not the time, place, nature, topic, anything. Is that really granting me a wish, then? Is luck just a crappy wish?

What's gambling? Obviously it has an element of luck - an element of being in your favor or not being in your favor. But aren't you kind of "wishing" for a certain outcome or a certain sharp deluge of luck? So you're wishing.. for a particular circumstance, which is that luck is on your side. But luck is just an undefined wish. So you're wishing, in particular, for a wish with no particulars...

Did writing this blog accomplish anything? Did it improve my grades or test scores, win me the lottery, or find me the love of my life? I wish.