DREAM FOREVER:
“The stars look perfect tonight.” Katie had said out loud to her husband Mike as they lay atop the trampoline that sat in their back yard. Many years ago, their children, now fully grown adults, spent more time on this trampoline than they did anywhere else in the small town of Hugo, Nebraska.
Hugo was a place where many families flourished to, to raise their children and eventually retire at. The white picket fence type of town where mothers got together for tea gatherings, dressed up in their fancy casual attire and sat on the back patio admiring God’s creation.
“They sure do.” Mike replied. “But not as perfect as you.” He turned his head with a smile on his face. To change his view from the beautiful nightime sky to his beautiful and perfect wife of 30 years. As he looked over in her direction, she was gone.
She’d been gone. Matter of fact, she only existed at times when being alone drove him to the point that he was envisioning her there next to him. His whole life had been spent searching for the perfect woman to be by his side. Theres a saying that goes, “speak it into existence”, but for Mike, he preferred “envisioning it into existence.” The perfect life, the perfect woman….only existed in dreams.
Sleep was the one thing he enjoyed the most at age 67. Because in his sleep, in his dreams, nothing else mattered. Everything was perfect. Being awake was a punishment, and sleep was a heavenly vacation. Dreams were the ultimate paradise. If only, he could dream forever…