I wish I could hold time and hack into the day when I was choosing which college to single out for my graduation. Rather, which course to pick! I would have preferred journalism lessons instead of settling on English (honors) classes. But alas, time doesn’t take the pain of reversing itself, come what may!

Though I am not feeling much forlorn for what I did then (it’s been six years now), but still wish I had brooded over it comprehensively, taking into account my long-term goals. (I would be happier and at an advantage today). But no qualms now (though I have alluded to it already… bang, bang, bang!).

This ‘I wish…’ reverie is seen, rather fantasized, by almost everybody (and if you think you are an exception, you must be a genius I must say). We act, we regret and we wish… to alter those follies, don’t we? Many a time, we do get a break to put it right, but when we realize that a particular wish can only be pulled off in a fairy land, we yet again regret (for the moment we slipped up) and we yet again wish.

I overheard my parents once (not so long ago), wherein my mom was being apprehensive about her own demeanor of treating my younger brother and letting him do whatever on earth he wanted to, since his very early age (now that he is 12 years old, he is ‘famously’ labeled as a spoilt brat). Even after those 12 long years and even after knowing she was left with the choice of mere wishing, she couldn’t resist saying, “I wish I could have controlled him in a much better way.”

A wish is spawned when either we really desire to do something (at present or in future) or we really covet we should have done something else instead of a particular endeavor, in the past. Well, not going into the philosophical sense of what I just said, let’s hop on to a yet another phase in the process instead. When ‘I wish…’ is fulfilled by ‘wish granted’, what follows is… well, a fresh wish of course!

Indira Gandhi must have, once upon a time, wished to become the prime minister of India; she also must have committed a few mistakes and wished to have been more serene and sensible in those moments. Amitabh Bachchan and Shahrukh Khan, the Shehenshah and the badshah of the Bollywood respectively, must have fancied ruling over the Indian film industry (no matter how modestly they state they didn’t!). In a nutshell, an achievement is the outcome of a wish.

Just imagine how dull and dreary a life would be, if there are no wishes. Wishes, undoubtedly, make a life action-packed. If truth be told, a wish always helps you live in an affirmative and optimistic atmosphere.

“I have no more wishes to make now, ever in my life,” ever heard someone saying this? No! You won’t! Reason being very simple… every person wishes to have something more that what he already possesses. It does hurt and upset us when a wish is not fulfilled, but even then, we can’t refuse to give in to wishing afresh.