Wish Bones

 

               They say that if you tell what your wish was it won’t come true.  I don’t believe that.  I believe our wishes waft out into the universe and because there are so many of everyone’s out there, they can’t help but bump into each other.   Some of the more gooey wishes stick to others and ultimately form huge globs of wishes.  I’m talking massive; like creating their own gravitational fields that draw in the less gooey and even light-hearted wishes.

 

               I believe it is these Jupiter sized wish globs that never get answered.  Only the wishes that manage to escape these force fields stand half a chance.  There may be some formula that will slip a wish past all of this, but I have never known what it is.  Just know that the expression, wishing your life away, is also a myth.  Don’t worry about it.  The more you put out there the better chance you’re going to have of getting one answered.

 

               Just as orbits eventually decay, so do massive wish globs.  The adhesion of the gooey wishes begins to fail and small sections as well as large chunks break off and fall away, sort of like pieces of iceberg.  Unfortunately, this does not free-up independent wishes.  Those, over time, fall victim to light particles and as we all know, in the light of day things always look differently.  This applies to wishes as well.  A good example of the effect time has on them would be to examine what you wished for when you were 10 years old and compare that to one of yesterdays wishes.  Not even close, are they?

 

               I’m guessing that in the future, space archeologists* will uncover old wish bones and attempt to reconstruct exactly what it was that was just so darn important to us.

 

 

*              2017 is when Space Archeology becomes a recognized and respected profession.  Mankind, after saturating the Earth with cultural debris for multiple lifetimes, turns to the vastness of space for the disposal of his refuse.  In 3035 it is the exploration of this debris that ultimately leads to the hit series, Space Pickers.  It is the story of two guys, buddies since space camp, who set out to search uncontaminated space dumpsters; searching for the coveted wall clock, the one matching the constellation Felinea.  (Felinea, seen only in the deep southern hemisphere - on clear nights, is an alignment of stars resembling a cat whose swishing tail and syncopated eyes have forever mesmerized space trolley riders.)