"How to Make a Birthday Wish"

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Here are the instructions:

Step 1) Aquire a pencil.
Step 2)Take out a peice of paper, any kind of paper will do, but sharing will not do
Step 3)Close your eyes.
Step 4)Umagine something that you are not, or you can't or you're missing.
Step 5)Take that something, open your eyes and write it down
Step 6)Turn the paper upsidedown.
Step 7)Erase it, or scratch it out.
Step 8)Write the oppposite of whatever you weren't, don't or are missing. Write that you wish you will, can or have found it.
Step 9)Fold the peice of paper six ways.
Step 10)Put it in a pocket, somewhere you will find.
Step 11) Open it on your birthday.
Step 12) Close your eyes and speak it in your head.

Artist Commentary:
Despite confusion as to what to write on the peice of paper during my instructions, I found people's reactions to be exactly as I expected. Nevertheless, I beleive some confusion is healthy, and can prompt great creativity and spontaneity. My intention by getting them to write something they don't have was to make them dig deep about what they truly desired. Generally we think more profoundly when imagining what we want in the negative. I wanted people to think about what they really wanted, not just something that they want at that moment like a drink for example. Of course there will always be people who are more focused on the present and will express their want for something fleeting at that mome; a coffee, a haircut or a pencil to write on the piece of paper. Although, I suppose those wishes could be equally something that someone has a great need for. A birthday wish should be something that you want very deeply, something you may beleive that only divine powers could deliver and that is the kind of wishes I was looking for when giving my instructions.