I Wish You Happy

by Kerry Anne King

Wishes don’t change anything, my mother always says, but sometimes they translate into action. And sometimes, every now and then, wishes are granted out of the blue, as if there really is a cosmic fairy godmother out there watching over me.

Life breaks everybody, long before death comes to sweep up the fragments.

Maybe it’s like the butterfly effect. Just the act of love shifts something in the balance of light against dark.”

You can’t change people. So the trick, if there is one, is to differentiate. Your emotion. Their emotion. Your responsibility. Their responsibility. Oh, you can offer your friendship, your support, even your help. But what somebody does with that is entirely up to them.”

Everybody is important; everybody is responsible for their own path, their own happiness. But we are still responsible to each other. To each other, mind. Not for each other.”