‘Ships at a distance
have every man's wish on board’ wrote Zora Neale Hurston. I might add that we
wish for many things, some of which make no sense and for things we wouldn’t
know what to do with if we got them. Most of these ships never find harbor.
They just travel across the sea in a voyage of which there is no end.
Unreliable captains very seldom find the intended port, they just keep wishing
they do. We’re always wishing; on stars, on pennies thrown in a fountain, and
other things. If we are not careful, we can spend our whole life wishing; an
endless journey to nowhere.
