Why do we wish upon stars?

Every culture ever has legends about the stars. Some say they are ancestors, others say angels or fairies. I mean, seriously, bright points of light in the sky? How could you not have legends? A falling star is pretty rare, so we often wish upon them. Astrologers think that the stars may govern our lives. If that is so, I would wish upon stars all the time.

confident, yet no longer something which could no longer be defined by user-friendly accident. as an occasion, some weeks in the past at a SF Giants pastime, I called out from the bleachers to our lead-off hitter "hey, Freddie, enable's commence this element off with a triple!" Fred Lewis, the batter in question, grow to be approximately 470 ft from me, and could no longer possibly hear me. He hit a triple. Divine intervention? Magic? Or a astonishing batter with an incredible variety of velocity?

You in the dark, the stars flickering hope.