When You Wish Upon a Star

By Miss Adventure

"When you wish upon a star, makes no difference who you are! Anything your heart desires, will come to you."

When we were young this song brought hope in the dreams of little girls. It all seemed so simple back then, as a little child. Life had a path and it was so clear and easy. No thoughts given to how to FIND Prince Charming - he was going to come to us! He would come riding on his white horse saving us from some lurking evil. It would be easy to know who he was - we would immediately fall in love with each other. No questioning - the only things that came between were wicked stepmothers or dragons or evil characters of some sort. They were all fictional, of course, so that meant love would be easy to find and easy to keep. As we get older, we begin to realize that prince on the white horse may be fictional too. As we become adults, we realize he IS fictional - love is not that easy, love is not that clear, and there is no perfect man out there.

What brought this thought? Tonight - Friday night - as I was coming out of Target, I saw an AMAZINGLY beautiful shooting star. It wasn't one of those blink and you'll miss it kind - it was one of those that slowly drops to the earth so closely you think you can reach out and touch it. I saw it and began to look away when it registered this bright streaming light was out of the ordinary - it was a shooting star! I looked back and watched in awe for several seconds as it burned brighter and brighter as it dropped toward the parking lot and then finally burned out.

The shooting star reminded me that I needed to make a wish; not that I really believe in that but the child inside of me likes to make that wish anyway (realizing it's really more of a prayer than anything else). So, my thoughts went to an earlier conversation with my sister-in-law. She began our phone conversation saying she had found me a husband. I bit and listened to her tell me about this man she had found and he does sound interesting. So, instead of the man finding me, I will let my sister-in-law try to bring the man to me. And, as is often the case, it is a long shot that it will even work out. The evil characters to keep us apart are realistic things such as distance, time, age, attraction. Still, there was a bright shooting star tonight and it is nice sometimes to hope like a child once more.