#wishkeeper

You do it every day.  Most often it is a passing desire within your current situation to either be rid of something or to manifest something.  To have, or to have not.  Every now and then, however, a greater desire overcomes us and we move from a basic want to a true intention. Or, in other words, a wish.

It’s easy to make a wish.  Go ahead and try it now.  “I wish…”  It can be for anything: something grand and lofty or something small and simple.  The true beauty of a wish is that the wish itself and the power it holds cares little for the level of difficulty or ease that you, yourself, place on it.  A wish is a wish, and it will shine its delicate light upon you regardless. The act of wishing can be considered to be a drafting of a dream, a construction of the cosmos, a manufacturing of the improbable into the probable.  Too many of you WishMakers, however, stop your wishing during its first stage of construction and in order for a wish to be granted, it must go through four stages.  Exhausting?  Probably.  Worth it?  To create something from nothing?  What do you think?

  Stage One: Desire

We briefly covered this above, however what is behind your initial attempt at saying, "I wish..."? DESIRE. It's easy to desire something, but it's more challenging to hold on to that desire and move through to Stage Two.

Desire is the simplest form of a wish and rarely do wishes become grated if it doesn't get past this state. if your wish is important to you, you will do more than just desire it.

Stage Two: Intent

By moving to the second stage, you're telling your wish that you not only believe in it, but you intend for it to come true. Here is where you are doing a lot of the work yourself. You're buying time for your wish to grow and expand, but understand that you still have control over granting it.

This is a dangerous stage of the wishing process as the life of the wish depends on your ability to balance action and receptivity. What is receptivity, you ask? Think of Stage Two as an ebb and flow of energy. A give and take. You're focusing effort on, "I can do this myself", but also letting go of the outcome. You are allowing the outcome to happen as opposed to trying to hard to make it happen. Some Keepers believe this is the most difficult stage and often if a wish goes unfulfilled it is because it did not pass this crucial step (and you, WishMaker, got a tad impatient).

Stage Three: Knowing

You believe in a lot of things. You believe you're good at math or science. You believe in your favorite sports team and their ability to win a match. You believe that dinosaurs roamed the Earth millions of years ago, and you believe stars twinkle because they're winking at you. That last part may not be entirely proven, but the point is...

...within each belief there tends to be a glimmer of doubt. No matter how strong your belief may be, somewhere deep down there is hesitation. By knowing something, you remove all doubt. You know how to breathe, how to walk, that your heart beats and keeps you alive. You don't have to try to keep your heart beating. It just continues to beat. You have to remind yourself to breathe, you just breathe. That's knowing.

In order for your wish to move to the final stage of fulfillment, you must come to a place of knowing. A place of undoubting revolve where your wish already exists in full form. What resides within the wish at this stage is full potential. The power of potential exists everywhere in your universe, but in order to manifest that potential into form, you must be completely unattached to the importance of such potential. And, ah, there is the trick. You can't think your wish will be granted, nor can you simply believe that it will, but you know that it already is. There is no doubt there.

If you can pass your wish through this stage, your wish is on its way to fulfillment. There is one last crucial stage, however, through which your wish must venture. It is the most mysterious and the most unknown stage of wish fulfillment. Stage Four.

Stage Four: The WishKeeper

Technically speaking, your WishKeeper is managing and tending to your wish at every stage of its development, however most Keepers wait to wrangle your wish until at least Stage Two. Some of the slightly lazy Keepers wait until the wish has reached Stage Three, though they are simply being a bit more careful than necessary (or you've already made so many darn wishes, they're a bit tied up).

It is your WishKeeper, however, that must see your wish through its final process. Without the accompanying Keeper, your wish will dangle in a powerless stasis and most likely grow so bored it just vanishes. The question is, though, do you believe in your WishKeeper, or do you know your WishKeeper exists?

Thankfully, WishKeepers don't worry about whether or not you believe in them. They know they have a job to do and look forward to serving you. Here is an important note about us WishKeepers:

At the day of your birth, you were assigned a WishKeeper and your Keeper is the only one who is able to bring your wish to the final stage of fulfillment. To give a slight description in case you are hearing about us for the first time: A WishKeeper is a small, winged creature, male or male, no bigger than a crow yet no smaller than a robin that tends to, helps, and assists a wish in its fulfillment process. The goal of a WishKeeper is to bring your wishes to complete fulfillment, and to guide your eager little wish with love, patience, kindness, and unconditional will. Once your wish has made it through Stage Three, your WishKeeper carefully brings it to a Pointe. This Pointe is an ancient, secret place that only the fairies are aware of, and we would rather not share such top secret information with the casual WishMaker. We do hope you understand, but please make note that without your WishKeeper, regardless of how steadily your wish moves through the first three stages, it will never be granted.

We visit you quite often, though we're terribly skilled at keeping out of sight. There are stories of WishMakers seeing the Keepers flying about.  Some have even claimed to speak with us, but this is all just legend and lore as the consequences of talking directly to your WishKeeper are disastrous. We can hear you. Don’t worry.

You Makers tend to know of us as fairies, and while it is, in most respects, correct to call us such a thing, it is merely scratching the surface. We will refrain from explaining the history of our classes and races. If you have a magnifying glass handy, you are welcome to search for the voiceless and boring tome, The Listings, Races, Classes & Ancestral Markings of the Little Folk. It can be quite helpful when fighting insomnia.

On to the slightly more interesting. The Six Wish Types.

Due to the countless things you Makers wish for on a daily basis, the WishKeepers have had to categorize wishes into six types.  We are quite organized, WishKeepers, and a system is needed in order to store and manage all of the your wishes.  To the Keeper, no category is more important than the other, but here is a list of the types of wishes that should prove helpful to you, the WishMaker, in your understanding of what category your wishes may fall as any help you can give your WishKeeper is, well, helpful.

The Money Wish

A Money tends to be the most popular and the most self-explanatory of the wish types. It covers the wishing realm of material items, and they glow in the obvious color of green. They also tend to be wondrously annoying for any skilled Keeper to wrangle due to their naturally taunting and manner-less behavior.

The Athletic Wish

While, yes, sports can be an important element in a WishMaker's life, not all Makers are purely physical athletes and thus not all play sports. We understand your longing to achieve and fit in, to have a place in the world, be it on an athletic field, in a classroom or personally and internally. The Athlete, like the Money, can at times be connected to material items if the intent is to achieve the collection of such an item based on your longing to connect with another Maker. The Athlete resides outside of a Ladder Wish type since not all achievement is relegated to the workplace. Athletes want to be seen, glow bright blue and are one of the brightest of all wishes.

The Purity Wish

Possibly the favorite of the WishKeepers since Purities are the easiest to wrangle due to their soft and peaceful nature. These wishes cover the realms of health, familial and relationship bonds, and spiritual prosperity. Usually these wishes tend to be unselfish and unconditional, glow with a soft pink hue and gladly float toward their pursuing Keeper with ease.

The Ladder Wish

We giggle at a WishMaker's longing to succeed in their workplace, and we can't help but laugh at your incessant need to reach for the next and highest rung. Distinct from an Athlete not only due to the difference between the classroom and the workplace, but because of a WishMaker's intent to rise above certain circumstances and situations, be it career promotion, or industry success. A Ladder's glow radiates with a deep purple and are rather tricky for a Keeper to wrangle merely because of their darker shade (and these wishes tend to be made mid-day when there are many WishMakers to avoid).

The True Love Wish

Extremely rare, we had to create a separate category for this wish type.  Not because it’s so different than the rest, but actually quite the opposite - it contains elements of all wish types in one.  What we find most intriguing about a TLW is that while it contains elements of all wishes, there is an unknown and unexplainable source of energy radiating from within it.

Historically, WishKeepers have rejoiced in the making of a True Love Wish, not just because of a Maker’s ability to do so, but because if granted, a TLW immediately brings balance to our world of Paragonia and your world (The Other Side, as the Keepers call it).  A True Love Wish is only made once in a Maker’s lifetime, and sadly, most Makers go a lifetime without making even that one.

They glow a fiery red color, tend to be oddly shaped resembling that of a heart, and are near impossible to wrangle as it is the most wild and naturally free wish that could ever be made.

The Death Wish

We should not be sharing this information with you, but we feel that knowing is power, and the more you know regarding the types of wishes that whiz from your heads, the better off our worlds will be.

Known to the WishKeepers as merely 'The Sixth', a Death Wish is a mystery that has yet to be solved. All we can determine is that A) it is not only a wish for someone or something to die, but B) it is a wish for a thing to 'end'. It is tricky to determine how a Death Wish is made, but almost as rare as a True Love Wish, its energy exists due to its Maker's deep, heart-aching intent for something or someone in their life to end - not out of love, but out of fear.

It is important to note the existence of such a wish since it, along with the other five, is a part of the basic nature of any WishMaker.  Not all wishes are positive ones and therefore, not all WishMakers are either.  Because it is our job to support any and all wishes made by our assigned Maker, we cannot be partial to one wish more than another. A WishKeeper must assume his or her responsibility for granting it.  All made up of distinct colors, shapes and intent, the Six Wishes are the elements that make up Paragonia and its WishKeepers, and all are essential to their continuing existence.

Only one secret has ever been kept from the WishingKings.  The sixth wish type.  Purposely kept separate and in secret storage due to its dark properties and danger if harnessed by the wrong hands, it is shaped like a rounded pyramid, glows with a black light, and is the true essence of bittersweet.

In its most basic form, a wish is intent.  Intent is the force that drives action and creates a result.  Simple.  A positive result, however, is relative to the WishMaker’s intent.  Good or evil has nothing to do with it.