This is a random tangent to take a break from my writing... please, check that story out though. But anyway, here's my... random outburst.

Not that I really did. It's just a statement I hear too often.

There are many people around the world. Some are young, frail, and simply too naive to understand half the things that occur in the world. There are some who are old, wizened yet wise; and these are the people who understand everything except the more modern concepts. There are yet others who seem to be a mix of both, young and wise, or old and ignorant; but despite this blend of traits they are still fine the way they are.

Regardless of who they are, they all still look upon that same starry sky. At times it isn't so starry, but rather a blinding, bright sky, with a single sun shedding light on the world. But a sun is still a star, and despite the intensity of the light experienced, they are all still under the same sky. Morning passes into the mid-afternoon, then into the evening, and finally into morning once more, all until it becomes one perpetual cycle. Still, they are all under the same sky.

If I say I were to wish under a starry sky, what would you assume I was wishing for?

It's the same sky that we all look up to, right? It's likely that when I gaze up at the clusters of stars that faintly light the sky, there are many others that are also watching. I may be pinpointing a star in the sky, claiming it as my own, special wishing star, while not knowing that someone else hundreds of miles away has also claimed that exact star.

And if we were to both wish under this same starry sky, upon that same star, what would you assume we were wishing for?

Astrology doesn't explain everything, nor does science. We can say that something can be explained through science, yet there's always a certain aspect that we struggle for a technical explanation. Some things occur just because they do. Some occur because of human habit and tendency. Still others occur in a completely random pattern.

Perhaps it's human tendency to think that if I were to wish upon a star, say a shooting star, I would be wishing for my dreams and inner desires to come true.

It's probably what you thought, right? When a person wishes on a star, generally he or she wishes for something good to happen to him or herself. Perhaps a new, heated romance to excite his or her life, or maybe a new job that will bless that person's family for generations on end. Is there a technical explanation for this? Perhaps, but if there were to be one it isn't something we'd regard as a high factor.

Would we consider this, then, to be a human tendency? That it's normal to say that a person wishes for his or her own benefit?

Is it also a tendency, then, to say that a person does this out of habit? Rather, that a person should choose to benefit his or her own self because it's a natural tendency of a human being.

You watch the news, I'm sure. The endless bombings somewhere far away from your home... or perhaps even somewhere close to you. You've listened to the corrupt politicians bribing for power, or the seal that was rescued from the icy cold waters. Maybe you learned of a famous person's death in the news, or a natural disaster occurring somewhere.

These things can be wished upon as well. Yet we don't. If prayer is to be considered a form of wishing, perhaps a small portion of the population does. Yet, why don't we ever wish upon a star for these things? Why not step out into that magnificent night scene and find the prettiest star among others, close your eyes, and wish for world peace, honest politics... things like that. Why do we instead wish for that attractive boy beside us to slip a hello in the hall the next day, or for that pretty woman to say yes to a marriage proposal? It's not a bad thing to wish on these little occurrences in life, yet is there a reason why we always wish upon these, and not other things that might need that wish more?

If I were to wish upon a shooting star, though I wouldn't, there might be other things on my mind than my own, simplistic wants. It could be possibly biased for me to say this statement, but I have a strong feeling that I won't. Occurrences of my personal wanting can be sacrificed and said later; there are more important things in the world that are more deserving of that star.

Good things happen even if you don't wish for them, right? Yet there are things people wish for that they control themselves, directly or indirectly. You can control the outcomes of some of your personal wants. You've wasted a star.

If we were to wish upon a star, it should only be so that the object we wish for truly deserves that wish. For someone's health, for the recovery of a grieving widow; these are things worthy. Asking for an X-Box 360 for Christmas is not.

And if wishing upon stars really does make the desire come true, wouldn't you be much happier knowing that someone else out there has received happiness because of a star that you wished upon?