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I don't know whether you believe in dreams or not. I do. I think that your heart tells you its most secret secrets in your dreams. It lets you know what it really wants and hopes for and is afraid of. And in a way, it's trying to say to you: "This is what will make us happy."
I LISTEN TO MY HEART
My heart spoke to me in a dream like that once, so deeply and so warmly and so sincerely that I've never forgotten the beauty of that dream or the wonderful feeling I woke up with afterwards. That feeling has lingered with me ever since, and in every person I meet, especially girls, I find my heart reaching out to them secretly, to see if that feeling is there in their heart.
They never know that's what I'm doing if the feeling, that very special feeling, is not hiding there in the warmth deep inside. The only girl who will ever know it is the One who is, at this very moment, my True Love. I know one thing, and one thing only about her, and that is: I haven't met her yet!
I have absolutely no idea what she looks like, how she wears her hair, what color her eyes are, or anything else about her. She might be the shyest, most sincere girl in the whole world, or she could be a freckle-faced Tomboy who's just breezed into her room from a fast game of football with the neighborhood guys. She might be working over her sewing machine in her spare time or making gingerbread boys with her Mom or Sis in the kitchen. Sometimes I wonder about her so much. Do you do that about your True Love too?
I've never told anyone about my secret dream before. It's one of those things that happen to you that is so personal that you never tell about it for a long, long time, mostly because you've got to think about it a lot. You've got to see if you can figure out what it really means and what your secret heart wants you to do about it.
But now, because I know that there's a very good chance that if you're reading FaVE, you might be The One for me, I'll tell you a little about my dream. If it makes sense to you, then I know that somehow, some way, some day we're
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the Rare Pair our Hearts have been hoping for.
THE DREAM
In my dream I was walking in the sunlight on some lovely ocean beach where I'd never been before. I was carrying a box of animal crackers along with me, nibbling on one now and then, and I noticed that a few seagulls were following me. They had their eyes on my animal crackers, so I tossed one to them from time to time, and before long I had a whole flock of the beautiful white birds swarming above me, chirping happily with that special little sound they have. Then, just as I was having so much fun feeding them, I looked down to find that I had run out
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GENTLE EYES SMILE warmly to greet you when you meet Barry!
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of animal crackers, except for one little' bear.
This was an unusual animal cracker bear. It looked more like a Teddy bear cookie than a real bear cookie. Something told me not to feed it to the gulls, and not to eat it myself, so I left it in the box, and went on down the beach.
It was as I came to a peninsula of rocks that I saw her. She was quite a way off, and I couldn't see her face clearly, only the way the sunlight played in her surf-wind blown hair as she seemed to dance along the sea-swept rocks. It was then that I felt that deep warm feeling I told you about,
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sort ot a mix of all the beautiful feelings and sensations that the sight of her in those beautiful surroundings brought to me .. . the sea, the sun, the warm wind from the sea, salty to the smell, and the beautiful thing that she herself was, standing out at the end of the rocks, high above the bursting surf.
She turned and saw me, and waved, just as though we'd known each other all our lives. And as I started climbing up the rocks to her, so happy that I'd found my True Love at last, I saw her melt into the sunlight, and simply disappear before my eyes! I woke up then, and I'm not ashamed to confess to you that there were tears in my eyes. And, I wondered what it all meant as I lay in my bed in the warm summer morning, and I wondered, too, whether this dream, and the feeling about that mysterious girl that I still felt, was real.
I got up slowly, and as I let my eyes fall on the little table beside my bed, I saw, in its open box, one little animal cracker, a bear!
I know now that I will never find my True Love until I find the girl who understands my dream. Do you?
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