Do You Really Value What You Wish For?

By Gary Vurnum

I am sitting in a shopping mall, waiting for my wife to finish her Christmas shopping. Next to me is a rather pathetic-looking fountain, which contains hundreds of coins, mostly thrown in by children of irate shoppers.

I look closer and I realise that most of the coins are only pennies. The sum of money accumulated under the water probably won’t even cover the cost of someone to pick them up.

Throwing a coin in a fountain is, to many, a token gesture in return for a wish. Are your wishes worth as little as a penny? More »

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