No... I think there were just some things I wished for that couldn't happen, no matter how much I wanted to.

[he's grown enough to just be able to see that not everything he's wished for is plausible. he's had people surround him that could ground him in that kind of reality—

though it certainly hasn't taken away from his optimism on the whole.]

I hope they all still believe. [e's still in good spirits about things, after all. he wants to believe in them, he wants to believe that people aren't just putting their wishes up that way because they think they should.]