Wishes wishes
Sometimes when I cannot sleep I think about wishes. I try to formulate them so elaborate that nothing bad could result of them. Mostly I end with the wish of happiness for everybody. But this wish only works if I am allowed to include conditions like ‚everybody has to be alive after the fullfilment‘ of the wish. Or the continuation of the happiness is endless. No lifeform is allowed to suffer because of the wish… I guess at this point the wish is rolling its eyes and runs into the next pub to drown its despair in alcohol.
The other topic which instantly springs to my mind is the book ‚the secret‘ which was very popular some years ago. A book which basically tells you, that the universe will grant you every wish if you only think, meditate or wish intensely enough for it. The law of attraction so the author states will give everybody what they deserve. Oh sh**! I would name this victim blaming. The downside of this ‚law of attraction‘ idea is, that people who do not have everything, meaning who are poor, ill or sad, are responsible for their sorry state. I so disagree with this. I cannot imagine a baby in the mothers womb intensely wishing to be born without hearing, with AIDS or inherited drug addiction. I cannot imagine anybody to wish he is born in a poor or war ridden country. I cannot imagine my best friend to wish to dy of cancer.
I do not deny that thoughts form actions and action will form in consequence a life, but the law of attraction as it is presented in the secret is far too simple. It ignores that the world is not a fair place, that not everybody is born equal, that there are things like structural racism, ableism, ageism and so on.
Besides ‚the secret‘ implies that humans are godlike. That they can shape the world by simply wishing, and thereby perhaps would need less than 6 days to create the world and Buddha‘s years of meditation, fasting and studying to gain enlightenment look bad in comparison.
So, I am back to my overtaxed wish, who is currently sitting in a pub…
And I shyly try to convince her to give hope for the lives of my loved ones, that they can find back to a better health and that they will have some more joyfully years. Health, for loved ones and I have to admit also for myself are my biggest wish (
But as the tag is #three-wishes I guess I will again speak with my drinking wish and interrupt her pub experience: My second and third wish is for everyone to feel loved and cared for.
May all these wishes come true.
Thank you
If you 
