azaizall-witch-of-shadows:

Intent is not everything

So I’ve seen some shit on this site and I need to speak my 2 cents. I can understand where people are coming from when people say things like “oh it will be fine as long as the intent was there” or “oh, I made a mistake but I had good intentions” but like this is witchcraft not saying sorry to your partner for getting them a cake instead of pie like they asked for. Speaking of cake, one of the analogies I use when explaining to people that substitutions are ok but there are limits. If you are baking a cake and you don’t have all the right ingredients but you have something that close enough you use it and you can still come out with a great cake. If you just use whatever the fuck you have on hand cause fuck what the recipe says you’re probably gonna come out with a shit cake and same goes for spells, you can intend to make the best cake ever but unless you use the right(or similar) ingredients it won’t come out the way you want it to so do better Susan. You’re willpower is a lot more then just your intent, you actually have to put effort into what you are doing to get real results. Another analogy I would like to use is let’s say you intend to quit smoking and you think about it really hard but fuck man you really want a cigarette and you eventually give in but you intend to keep trying but at the end of the day it was your own willpower that failed you not your intentions.