Dear No One,
When you toss a coin into a wishing well and ask for love, what are you actually wishing for? What is your true definition of love? And what is theirs?
Are you asking for your definition of love to be fulfilled, or for theirs to grow stronger? And what if your wish works, but not the way you imagined? What if it intensifies their feelings for you into something overwhelming, something obsessive? What if it turns into a need for control over your time, your energy, your choices?
What if their dream of a life with you becomes so clear and urgent in their mind that it fuels desperation and fear, turning into resentment when you’re not moving at the same pace?
When you wish for love involving someone else, does the well split the wish into two? Does it grant the same wish from two different perspectives? If your subconscious views of love and life were different, then maybe you’d both be pulled in separate directions?
So maybe for a wish like that to work, both people would need to want the exact same thing. Not just the word “love,” but the meaning behind it. The version of it. The speed of it. All of it.
I feel like wishing wells should come with a user manual or something.
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