Are they praying or wishing?

This afternoon I ran into my Chief in the hotel lobby, and we chatted for a little while about the Erawan Shrine. Yesterday, I watched people praying-at least, I thought at the time they were praying. Today, I learned that the Erawan Shrine is considered a very lucky place for wishes.

Wishes. That threw me.

Wishes, I thought, were just that. You can wish upon a star. You can wish at a well.

I think there’s something very strange, about wishing at a statue of a god.

~ by curiosityfreedthekat on July 4, 2009.