Be Careful What You Wish For

I’m sure you’ve heard the phrase. Unfortunately, there is truth to it. It may not happen immediately, if at all, but you could be cautious or at least prepared for what might happen.

Sometimes a wish sets into motion much within us. And sometimes much within us sets a wish into motion. In both cases, something is at work. It may not even require any divine intervention. You may fulfill it yourself, knowingly or not.

What is tricky is that they come in a package. Including more than you “signed up” for. And often, that is inevitable. You cannot have one thing without the other. Not in this universe and the mysterious (yet explainable) ways in which it works.

If you wish for strength, you won’t suddenly be strong with the snap of your fingers. You will have to go through and/or swallow what will make you strong. And not only that, once you are strong, you will have the consequences of it. Things will shift. You will be looked at differently and treated differently. For better and for worse. You will also begin attracting or repelling based on it. And with all of this, you would have sacrificed what cannot coexist with the fact of you being strong.

The same, in essence, can be applied to other wishes. Because as chaotic and whimsical as life may seem, it is still strictly governed by certain rules.

When you make a wish, know that you are making a trade. And sometimes, depending on what you currently have going on for you, that trade will bring about tremendous change. You might be forced to let go of and lose things that you would rather keep and even cling to. Because, again, they are not compatible with your wish or are getting in the way of it. If it is only the latter, there may be room again for them later on. A typical example would be people who are holding you back more than you realize or admit to yourself while you hold on to them dearly. It can be painful.

It gets worse if you resist. If the wish is inevitably coming true but you are stubbornly keeping in place what is keeping it out, devastating destruction could manifest. Does this mean you should always be flexible and open to anything? And simply go with the flow? No, that is quite dangerous too. It means that you should try to figure out what is an obstacle to it and, if you can’t, be ready to endure what will reveal it as such. 

So, be careful what you wish for.

CREDIT: AI-Generated Examples done on Leonardo.AI