Wishful Thoughts

ごども (in the picture) = means child

As a little girl, she often wished for many things. From the first time she could remember what she wished for, she had wished to play together with her cousin forever. She remembered a time when she saw that every child's parents had come to see their work in pre-school, and so she always wished that her parents would come see her and her accomplishments. In her early primary schooling years, she gained three best friends and she wished that they had stayed best friends forever. When she reached the latter years of secondary schooling, she wished for an end to life.

Then when the little girl finally grew up a little more, she realised that wishful thoughts were vain. She came across a verse one day: "When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child...". There is something better than wishing, for wishful thoughts are only desires of things seen in this world. Now she hopes; and hope is looking forward to something with a desire that it will happen. Hope is more than believing in things of the world, but it pertains to things that are eternal.

Sometimes she still wishes for this and that, because it gives her a momentum in life for the next chapter of life. Her momentums are filled by sharing precious memories with people, spending times playing games with people, doing things that need to be done, and creating something meaningful for someone. At other times, walking underneath a clear or cloudy sky, gazing at the stars and a full moon once in a while, a good read, listening to peaceful music, reminiscing photos or memories, and other little things pass the moments.

Today, while shaping the sand sculpture at the beach with family and friends was just a nice pastime she thought, she put aside wishful thoughts for the moment and hoped for more.