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Dream Day


One of the prompts I gave my class this week was to describe your dream day if money was no object. I often think about what my dream day would look like. I always picture it including all of the things that are important or interesting to me. The hard part was figuring out how to fit it all in. I thought of so many scenarios, and I finally decided to focus on the areas outside of school.

This is a day that would happen sometime in the future. It would all begin at around 6 a.m. because I’m a morning person, and if I am going to have my dream day I may as well wake up early and get started! I would start by going for a 3-mile run. A shorter run feels like it isn’t enough, and a long run would make me too tired for the other activities. I have always enjoyed the 3-mile distance. Running also helps me get in the right frame of mind. I do some of my best thinking while I am running. After my run, the entire family would hop on a plane to Scotland. Why Scotland? Scotland happens to be the home of golf, and I happen to love playing golf. In my dream scenario, my whole family has taken up the game and is just as enthusiastic as I am. Of course, we booked a tee time at St. Andrews, and we will have the course to ourselves.

After arriving at the airport, we get our clubs and begin our dream round of golf. Obviously, I end up shooting the round of my life and breaking par, including my first hole-in-one and a couple of chip-ins. The weather would be a cool, overcast day you think of when you think of Scotland. Any round of golf played in a sweater is a good round of golf.

To celebrate our successes on the golf course the family goes to a restaurant to celebrate. Wouldn’t you know it, both of our extended families have shown up to celebrate with us! We have a fantastic evening of eating, talking, playing games, laughing. It will be a great evening of fellowship with the most important people in my life.

To me, living the dream is having something active to do (golf, running) and having people to share those special moments with. Of course, golfing at St. Andrews would be sweet as well. It never hurts to dream big!

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  1. AnonymousSeptember 28, 2018 at 11:45 AM

    good answer than in ie

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  2. AnonymousSeptember 30, 2018 at 2:51 PM

    This seams like a pretty amazing day! I hope you can do this one day.

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