what do you wish for?
January 14, 2009
more money? a better paying job? a boyfriend or a girlfriend? or perhaps a better pair of shoes.
every single day, a wish is bound to cross our minds. the grass is forever greener on the otherside. we all want the good things. we yearn for the stuff of dreams. there’s a certain appeal in things that seem so out of reach.
a wish is also an admittance that we think we are lacking. we think we don’t have it and we therefore want it and wish for it. but maybe, just maybe, we’ve been wishing for all the wrong things.
the recent episode of Grey’s Anatomy has Meredith narrating this quote, and it made things crystal clear, like always…
“We all get at least one good wish a year, over the candles on our birthday. Some of us throw in more; on eye lashes, fountains, lucky stars and every now and then, one of those wishes come true. So what then? Is it as good as we’d hope? Do we bask in the warm glow of our happiness? Or do we just notice we’ve got a long list of other wishes waiting to be wished? We wish because we need help and we’re scared and we know we may be asking too much. We still wish though, because sometimes they come true.” - Meredith (Grey’s Anatomy, Season 6)
the more i read it, the more i agree with it.
i say it’s all in the hope.
the hope that our wish might some day come true.
afterall, a world without hope is a world not worth living.
and hope, well,
it uplifts,
it makes you soar
and hope, well it does bring
about amazing things.
