Can I Make A Wish?

We have a ritual of sorts here in India where when an eye lash drops on your cheek you have it picked up by the person next to you ,make a fist of your hands,put that eyelash on it and wish for something which is close to your heart.And then blow it away. It was believed your wish gets carried away by the wind to God and he grants that wish to you! Just a child hood fun thing.As far back as I can remember, I learned it from my eldest cousin and innumerable silly yet cherished  things such as these which has stayed with me. I am passing it on to my children,silly as it may sound.(Whoever heard of picking up eyelashes and praying /wishing for something?!Moronish? Nah,I don't think so! ) Someone even pointed out,'you still do this silly childhood thing ?' and I preened and said,Yes,I do! It makes me happy! And it makes me even happier when my children believe in it and hold on to it like their life depended on it. I love it when they spot an eye lash on my cheek and say.'wish,wish,wish'..and though its a long gone forgotton thing which now even I try to push back in the recesses of my mind as little joys of yesteryear,I hold on to it. My older one, a young lad of 9, has had a head injury yesterday;he collided with a boy ,about the same age ,head on and while that boy just had a swelling on his forehead,my son got a tear of tissue just above his right eyebrow.I took him to the Station Medical Center where he ended up with three stitches(he boasts that he's got six.Typical boy thing I tell you!) and an outlandish dressing he's quite proud of! There's a very close relative whose undergoing some serious health problems and one of her reports even suspect her of being a cancer patient,which all of us fear maybe true! My older son knows about it. So,my younger son,whose 2y9m had a couple of eye lashes resting on his cheek.Since my inclination and time allowed me to do this,I thought I'll teach him now how to wish for things.Because though he has a lot of wishes and demands he doesn't know how to 'make a wish'! I told him,'say Dear God(and he was repeating after me,It was such a special moment,I wished I had a camera rolling!) Please keep my family and me safe n sound',we were going to make a couple of wishes more when my older son interjected and said,'Leo, please pray that when your Bhaiya goes to get his stitches cut it doesn't pain him much,so we prayed that! And then he said, also pray that Granny gets rid of her cancer ailments. I thought to myself ,Thank God, for helping us recognize at times like these that as parents we must be doing something right to bring up a kid so empathising with others' pain. ….... with that we blew the lashes with 3 wide grins!