A PERFECT DAY

Ever wished you could wake up to A Perfect Day. Maybe not just A Perfect Day, but your Perfect Day.  

I just wrote about the last couple of days spent/wasted trying, unsuccessfully, to find a missing item. Unfortunately this followed a couple of hellish weeks, hearing about and living with, a variety of family dramas I hoped were long buried and forgotten in the past.

Where I wonder, are the magical places that change the world into a place where, in the blink of an eye and give us the Perfect Day? Sometimes I wonder if its only in the movies or in some daydream.

A rather dull ‘song’ drones out the phrase The Perfect Day in the cable company’s promotion of the Angelina Jolie-Pitt movie By the Sea. Any Perfect Day is no more for the stars of this film anyway. 

I still wonder though what it would be like to jump out of bed with the eagerness of a child on Christmas morning again. Instead, for an unreasonably long time, I usually pull the bed covers up for at least 15 minutes more rest, before I finally rise to see what I have to deal with today. 

Why is the Perfect Day and the Happy Ending something we can only dream about? Why is being Surprised by Joy* such an illusive, maybe impossible, dream?

Perhaps rather than wonder if there is a movie somewhere that matches our dreams, perhaps we might, take as much time as we need, to try and figure out how we can find a way to change our lives to put some part of our dreams into our reality. When you think about it, why don’t we make this a resolution and part of a plan? Wonder if it is something we could actually make happen.

*Title of a C.S. Lewis 1955 auto biographical book