do you remember how, as kids, we'd 'wish' for things all the time? "i wish the sky was purple"...."i wish papa comes home early today"...."i wish it were simpler to do these math problems"

I received a forward today, at the end of which, like most such emails, it's customary to make a wish (else your private parts will fall off in an hour or something equally bizarre). Point is, as i read those three words,"make a wish", i realized that i had stopped 'wishing' for things a long time ago....

Life makes you so pragmatic...practical....almost cynical about everything. Actually life doesn't do that - but it's one of the spaces that you go through in your life...of being cynical and the like. And you stop wishing.

I used to be such a dreamer - i still am - but not the way it was in the 4th std/grade. Hehe The name of my school building in the 4th std was 'Popatlal Building' :) ...that was a different time...i really loved my childhood...

There's such purity and innocence in making a wish. "I wish the world was a happier place", i'm sure you have said that more than a few times :). That probably is the simplest wish to make a reality - just take care of your happiness and the happiness of those you care for....to whatever degree...spreading 'sunshine' is so simple....unfortunately we're so lost in magnifying everything that's wrong in this world that we miss out on the smaller...seemingly insignificant bits of it...

Like making a wish.