LOOKING THROUGH THE WRONG END OF A TELESCOPE

On the way to preschool, the doctor had left her stethoscope on the car seat, and her little girl picked it up and began playing with it."Be still, my heart," thought the doctor, "my daughter wants to follow in my footsteps!"Then the child spoke into the instrument, "Welcome to McDonald's. May I take your order?"Among the many lessons we can learn from children is the lesson about how to have fun. And for most children, fun is spelled F-A-N-T-A-S-Y. Their worlds of make believe are places of excitement and joy.Writer Dr. Seuss said this about fantasy: "I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient inl iving; it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities."One man spoke for too many of us when he said, "The prospect of along day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work I can think of than taking myself off to somewhere pleasant, whereI am forced to stay for hours and 'have fun.'" Are fun and fantasy part of your life, or is having fun just another fantasy? What might happen if you decided to look at life through the wrong end of a telescope? What if you asked yourself "What if?"instead of "What now?" And how can you put more "fun" into your daily "functions"?Wake up those brain cells! They'll thank you years from now.-- Steve Goodier