A Perfect Place
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Where's your perfect place? When things get tough, isn't there a place you go where everything is perfect?
Your escape. Your perfect place. It's in your mind, of course, because perfection isn't real life. Real life has
ups and downs, hills and valleys. When I asked a friend at Opportunity Village about their perfect place, here's what they said: "I imagine that I would be at a water park. The water park would have lots of big water slides and big inner water tubes. I just would like sit in a big inner tube and go down a big water slide just like to get splashed and soaked and wet at the water park and I would be having lots of fun at the water park." In author Stephen King's novel The Dreamcatcher, a group of boys imagine their perfect place: "Duddits has no selective perception; to him the wino looking for returnables over by the trash barrels, the girls playing softball, and the squirrels running around on the branches of the trees are equally fascinating. It is part of what makes him special. ...They are like boys in a huddle before some big game. ...He is their ball; without him there is no bounce, there is no play. He is their dreamcatcher, he makes them one. ...Duddits may be retarded in some ways, but not in this way; in this way, they are the poor stumbling enfeebled idiots and Duddits is the genius." Keep your perfect place in view. We all need to keep our sights on a perfect place. Never stop trying to be better. But most importantly never think you've reached that perfect place. It's always ahead of you. If you never reach it, that means you're trying, growing, getting better. |
Jim Holcombe
Marion, IA