The Wishing Well

Far out in the desert there was a wishing well. Many would go to the well and make a wish. Once the wish was granted those who wished would be on their way. One day a girl approached the well and being a very clever girl she wished for more wishes. And as the others before her had their wishes granted so did she.

She wished for two or three of everything. The more wishes that she had the more she wished for until she had wished for everything that she could imagine. Then she notice a very funny thing happened with each successive wish. The things that she wished for never turned out to be as good as she had hope. They were imitations only.

Soon she had so many wishes and so many things that she didn’t know what to do with them all. And the more she obtained the more she wished for. She had surrounded herself with all of the stuff of her wishes. Yet she was not satisfied.

She went back to the well and wished that everything that she had wished for would disappear and she could start again. She was also granted this wish. With that one wish she wished that she would know that  having everything and anything didn’t matter as much as having the one thing that was the best.

Hamzatu