I was on a run (the other day) and the overplayed song by Drake came on my ipod. "I could really use a wish right now, wish right now wish right now!" Anyway, as I was listening to the lyrics I thought of wishes and the things I used to wish for as a kid. I remember there being endless opportunities to 'make a wish' when I was young. Lots of outings to parks where there would be wells, lots of blowing out of other children's candles on their birthdays claiming it as your own and lots and lots of shooting stars appearing in the sky even if they were just figments of childish imagination. Thinking of this I recollected on some of the bazaar, selfish and sometimes evil wishes I wished....
Plop goes a 1 cent coin (rem those 1 centers?) in a grimy fish pond in the Berea Zoo in Durban: "I wish that I could get a guitar" (WTF would I want a guitar for? I spose cos I hated my violin and piano lessons so much i just WANTED a guitar...?)
Plop goes a shiny 5 cent into a fountain across the road: "I wish that my brother would get smacked more often" (Ok I think this was just after I had seen him getting smacked for the fist time as he did something VERY naughty and I remember watching it in delight and hoping it would happen more often! It didn't.)
The blowing out of my candles after the disappointment of my presents (clothes, books, puzzles... I wanted a baby doll that could wee!!): "I wish that christmas would come quickly (my bday is in April...It was a LONG 8 months)
I rem the endlessly winning the wishbones and thinking "I wish to be a teacher", or "that santa was actually real", or that "I could know if god was true or not" and then one day I wished that "i could make anything happen!" This was a revaluation! Imagine making anything happen? Like, making yourself look like the girl in the 'Mizz' magazine, or being so cleaver you didnt have to go to school, or better yet- being able to speak gibberish like all of the cool kids in school, or getting money for tuck everyday, or being able to watch '16 SN' movies, or getting braces (and then when you do get them) getting them off, or winning the lotto and having your parents ask YOU for pocket money and last but not least to get a life time supply of sweets and never get bad teeth or fat. That would be AMAZING!!!
Anyway about 10 or more years down the line I came across a really cool wishing well at the Biscuit Mill in Cape Town. Kira and I decided to make wishes and this time I am not going to tell you what I wished for :)
