n[a]r[r]a[t]ive - patrick's dream

In the n[a]r[r]a[t]ive series I tell true stories from my own life and the lives of people I know in order to teach highly important lessons on art, business, and life in general.
 

During high school years, around the age of 17, one of my best friends was Patrick Sellin.  Patrick and I went to church together, where I met the majority of my close buds.  We would do fun things with our friends like go to Christian rock concerts, stop by a local restaurant, Cruisers, for milkshakes, and even had a band (okay, okay, it was a worship band that mostly only our parents heard, but it was still cool).  

At one point, Patrick and I even had a weekly get together after youth group where he would come over and we would watch West Wing.  We called it West Wing Wednesday.  I know, we were crazy teenagers, going to church and watching political television dramas.  

Patrick is a pretty funny guy, and one time told me about a crazy dream he had.  As I remember it, he was dreaming of lying in a peaceful park on a beautiful day.  The grass was soft and the sun was shining.  He comfortably dozed with one hand behind his head, and one on his stomach.  

While resting with his eyes closed, he felt a slight tickle on the hand atop his stomach.  Then the tickle turned into a pain.  He opened his eyes to find a squirrel biting his fingers.  Startled, he quickly sat up and yanked his arm to the side, flinging the offender yards away.    Then Patrick woke up.

Patrick woke up, not because the squirrel had startled him out of the dream world, but because, in reality, Patrick had sat up in bed, flung his arm quickly to the side (to remove the squirrel) and dislocated his shoulder.  I've never dislocated anything, but I hear it's quite painful.  

Moral - Work hard to turn your dreams into reality.  Unless your dreams are about rabid squirrels...then you keep those suckers in your head.

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