This Person is Special
(Adapted from The Iguana by Isak Dinesen)
Everyone will die. Once people are born and breathe their first gulp of air, they are dying.
How ironic.
As people grow, they meet people. Sometimes they meet special people. Do you have a
special person in your life? Besides your parents, do you have any other special person in
your life?
Who ever this special person is, I bet he or she is someone you can trust. Someone that
gives you advice when you need it. Someone that cheers you up when you are in a "rainy day"
mood. Someone that cares. It is like this person can be a "second" mom or dad.
This special person is always at the same location everytime you visit him or her. It
can be in the front porch, the back yard where you can just enter from the side door, or in the
living room where there is always two chairs facing each other.
Everytime you visit this special person, you will always be welcomed. The atmosphere
inside or outside his or her home is friendly like anyone--even a criminal--can come for comfort
from the harsh aspects of life.
This special person brings life to you like a rainbow. He or she tells you the good things
in life. He or she tells stories of their good times and experiences. You listen to those
wonderful things wishing that sooner or later you will make time to enjoy any of those
experiences. It can be traveling to exotic places, reading excellent books as excellent
as if you will remember it forever, improving you health and beauty, looking at life from
a different perspective, ideas on getting someone to like you, and much more.
Sadly speaking, this special person must move along and go forward. He or she will meet
the inevitable--that is death. You feel crush. You feel like you can't go on life without
this special person. No more advice. No more laughters. No more wonderful stories about life.
No more special feelings about life. It is like this special person is a good luck charm
towards life. Without him or her, things look different.
Things will look different. What will you do with the extra time--that extra time that
was spent visiting that special person? Possibly do some of the things the special person
told you in his or her stories.
When you do some of the things, it feels like the special person is not really dead at all.
It is like he or she is with you all the time. You remember the thoughts, stories, laughs, and
the secrets of life. And when you remember those things, it is like he or she is telling you
those things all over again.
Years and years later, you may be a special person towards some young human being whether
it is a child or young adult. When he or she comes and visits you, you will tell the same
stories and experiences, including your stories and experiences you experienced. You will
have the same set up your special person had. You will feel and act like your special person
ready to be someone's guardian. It is like you are a teacher and all you will teach is what
you believe in and what each young person must experience and to give each young one a bright
positive outlook at life. (
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