Every once upon a time, life emulates a children’s book. I suppose it could happen twice upon a lifetime, but even once is so amazing no one really expects it.
Imagine waking up in the morning, opening one eye and peeking out from under the covers to see what is happening in the world, only to almost see, out of the corner of that eye, something that disappears into improbability!
All the rest of your life you look for this. In the beginning you look in the closet and behind the door. Sometimes you look in the toy box and it is very curious because it seems to be right there on the tip of your tongue, but even when you look in a mirror, you don’t see a thing!
Later on, when you are big enough to go to school, you look in books. You look in so many books in so many libraries that pretty soon people think you’re kind of a book bug. After years of looking, you know it’s right at the back of your brain, but you just can’t get it out in the open so you can see it!
Life moves on, it always does, and you find yourself in all sorts of serious and grown-up situations. You tell yourself, again and again, this is that thing I was looking for! Only it always turns out that it isn’t!
And finally, one day, when you’ve given up all thought of even looking for it and are out walking in the garden…sniffing the roses and picking violets….there it IS!
Almost brand new and just beginning to climb up the fence is the cutest little sweetpea you’ve ever seen! You come back every single day to sit there and and tell it stories and just watch it grow. You couldn’t have come before because it wasn’t there and you can’t pick it because that would kill it, but never in your whole entire life have you felt so completely happy and satisfied.
Things just happen when they’re supposed to. You can’t make ‘em happen sooner and for some reason I just don’t think you need to worry about missing them either!
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