I wish you ...

Wishing health, luck and fortune is an old tradition, especially in New Year's Day in any country. It is interesting that most people making the wish simultaneously with another physical action, here are some examples:

In Brazil, if they are in a beach city, after midnight, people go to the beach, jump seven waves and throw flowers in the sea while making a wish.

In Korea, on New Year's Day a lot of people go to the sea to watch the sunrise. The beaches of eastern Korea are filled with crowds of people. On seeing the sunrise, people make their new wishes.

In Mexico, many people usually gather with their relatives and friends to celebrate the New Year. Some have some special customs. For example, they turn on the TV and wait to see or hear the bell ringing twelve times. Each time the bell rings, they eat one grape and make a wish.

In Venezuela, Some people write wishes in a letter, and then they burn it to make sure that nobody can read what they wrote.

In Iran, on Nature Day(سيزده بدر, the 13th of Farvardin when families go to nature) people knit grass after making a wish.

Anyway when I want to make a wish I suddenly recall "Three wishes" from Waters. In his song you can see how simple and unreachable the wishes are.

Reached back for the bottle
And rubbed against the lamp
Genie came out smiling
Like some Eastern tramp
He said hey boy what's happening
What is going on
You can have three wishes
If you don't take too long
I said well
I wish they all were happy on the Lebanon
Wish somebody'd help me write this song
I wish when I was young
My old man had not been gone
Genie said consider it done
There's something in the air
And you don't know what it is
You see someone through a window
Who you've just learned to miss
And the road leads on to glory but
You've used up your last wish
Your last wish
And you want her to come home
Genie said I'm sorry
But that's the way it goes
Where the hell's lamp sucker
It's time for me to go
Bye
There's something in the air
And you don't know what it is
You see someone through a window
Who you've just learned to miss
And the road leads on to glory but
You've used up your last wish
Your last wish
And you want her to come home