What are your views on wishes, how powerful do you think they really are to you?

Question

Think how often you have made a wish and then ask yourself how successful were they.... and your average success rate?

Remember the birthday cakes, the desperate wish for something to happen etc.

Thank you.

This is just an exercise to see how powerful or necessary they are.

Answer 1

I hate wishes because they don't come true and are just a reminder of broken dreams.

Answer 2

WISHES ARE HUMAN DESIRE

THEY ARE AS POWERFUL ASYOUR DESIRES

Answer 3

I think wishes are a part of human nature. It is desire, motivation, wanting, yearning that creates a wish. I do not view wishes as very powerful. I think the desire behind the wish is powerful because it states something about myself and my desire, but to simply wish does not create action. What determines if something comes true is dedication, action, motivation and perseverance, rather than speaking a sentence to wish for something.

Answer 4

I have a saying I borrowed from somewhere about wishes. "If wishes were fishes we'd all live by the shore."  I don't put any merit in wishes, prayers on the other hand are a different story.

Answer 5

For me, it's definitely less than !%.  The only thing that's come true is my wife and daughter.  I don't have the job I want, even though I like it very much. I never became an astronaut or got to fly to the moon. I was a newspaper photographer for about 3 months, but I had to give that job up to take care of my daughter.

I didn't get a lot of what I wished for as a kid, but I'd have to say things turned out much better this way.

Answer 6

It is lack of potency that differentiates a wish from a resolve.... by definition, therefore, wishes are horses that can't run....... they can excite our mind, but not incite it enough to generate any significant effort.

Answer 7

I wish I knew.