All of your dreams may not necessarily come true. You may not become rich tomorrow, and you may not find your one true love the day after. We may not immediately have world peace, and you might not get that puppy you saw in the store. While shooting stars can’t necessarily guarantee all or even any of that, they can promise one thing – enlightenment.
The thing about an 11:11 wish is that you get a whole minute to make your wish. You can add ands, commas, semicolons, any grammatical cheat that you can think of to make your wish as extensive and all-inclusive as possible. But when it comes to shooting stars, you no longer have that luxury. You have a split second to make your wish before it is nullified by the universe, and adding cheats is no longer appropriate. You have one shot to make one wish.
Its like that example of a coin flip that movies have just about overuse – when caught between two choices, flip a coin and you’ll know which result you want when the coin is in the air.
The second that shooting star zooms past, you know what you want. You have one wish that stands out from the rest, one desire that trumps them all. It may not be something you can verbalize or even think up; you can feel it.
In the classical words of Disney’s “Cinderella”: A dream is a wish your heart makes.
When you see that shooting star, your heart makes a wish. It takes all of your 11:11 desires, your coin flip hopes, and puts them into a feeling.
That feeling isn’t something that leaves you either. It is something that you keep wishing for and desire more and more until it burns like a star within you, and you know that not only is it a wish, but it is a need that you will fight for. When you wish upon a star you receive direction.
The North star is not the only guidance we can find in the sky. Sometimes it is the loose cannon, the star that has lost its place that can show us our truest desires.
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