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The Wishing Tree (1): A Destiny City Star Festival Tradition to be held every year; In Town Square, there is a beautiful tree with spreading branches. It is tall, but the lowest branches are easily reached. The city has decorated the tree with small, starlike ornaments and glistening lights. Thick leaves and beautiful purple flowers dangle from the branches, along with a myriad of different colored papers with handwritten wishes. Next to the tree is a stack of blank paper with twine attached, and a handwritten sign that explains:
Write your wish on a sheet of paper and tie it to the tree. Take one wish off the tree and do your best to grant it. When you have granted the wish, bury the paper in the park.
The papers are biodegradable and filled with seeds. There are no rules for wishing, but you are encouraged to wish for something vague enough that it can be interpreted in many ways so that it can be granted; you do not write your name on it, but it is encouraged to write something that doesn’t wish for self gain, but rather something that can make the world a better place. Some wishes dangling from the tree already include things like “I wish there wasn’t so much litter in the park,” “I wish someone would clean the graffiti off the old historic buildings,” and “I wish there were more volunteers at the shelter.”
If you choose to use the Wishing Tree, what do you wish for? If your wish is private, you may write it on the paper and choose a spot in the park and bury it yourself instead of hanging it on the tree.
Write your wish on a sheet of paper and tie it to the tree. Take one wish off the tree and do your best to grant it. When you have granted the wish, bury the paper in the park.
The papers are biodegradable and filled with seeds. There are no rules for wishing, but you are encouraged to wish for something vague enough that it can be interpreted in many ways so that it can be granted; you do not write your name on it, but it is encouraged to write something that doesn’t wish for self gain, but rather something that can make the world a better place. Some wishes dangling from the tree already include things like “I wish there wasn’t so much litter in the park,” “I wish someone would clean the graffiti off the old historic buildings,” and “I wish there were more volunteers at the shelter.”
If you choose to use the Wishing Tree, what do you wish for? If your wish is private, you may write it on the paper and choose a spot in the park and bury it yourself instead of hanging it on the tree.
Nemu had joined Sato in visiting the wishing tree today, on the suggestion of Sato's self-described mentor, Alise. While Sato had readily jumped at the idea of making a wish that someone could grant, Nemu had been a little more hesitant, because what she wanted the most wasn't something that anyone could help her wish, short of divine intervention... which. Given how she hadn't been favored by the deities so far, Nemu had her doubts there was any hope for her anytime soon, assuming she made it to adulthood without meeting an unfortunate fate. Still, because she tended to tag along to wherever her twin went, Nemu had gone with Sato, because, perhaps, there was still a deity out there that might take pity on poor little her.
At first, Nemu largely hung to the back while Sato wrote down her own wish, and watched the other passerby write down their own wishes as well. After some hesitation and a lot of internal conflict within herself, Nemu excused herself with the reasoning of not wanting to see Sato's wish, in case it didn't come true, a pencil and piece of paper in hand. Initially, she struggled with the wording of her wish, because she wasn't sure what to write, but finally settled on a simple sentence: I wish I was less cursed. Surely, that was decently safe enough, right? She wasn't wishing for a lot, just for the constant string of misfortune to stop befalling upon her... Actually, perhaps it was a little too greedy, for someone like Nemu, who seemed doomed from the start.
The point of the wishing tree was to make a wish that anyone could grant- Nemu didn't feel safe hanging it on the tree, because it was technically a wish that could be construed as a wish for self-gain. Remembering what someone had told her about burying her wish if it was meant to be private, Nemu borrowed a garden trowel from one of the attendants nearby, and went to bury her wish in a private corner of the park, because burying it was far better than it falling into the wrong hands, such as someone who wanted to bully her. Upon covering the piece of paper up with dirt, and returning the tool to the attendant, Nemu returned to her sister's side, with a new wish to hang up in the place of the one she had just buried.
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I wish the games at the arcade were more fair.
This, too, she had struggled with the wording of, but Nemu felt this was vague enough to where it didn't entirely seem like it was something personal? Although the twins knew firsthand as to how much money they sank into the crane games, or at least had an inkling of an idea (because after awhile, the numbers sort of blended together, especially for a couple of young children with parents who were seemingly made of money), 'more fair' seemed like something that could be applied to a broader category of people, because didn't plenty of people feel that the games could be 'rigged' at times?
At least, she hoped so.
