The Most Beautiful Life

“I believe in dreams.

“Dreams you can live in.

“If you design the space where the story will happen, you can control them both. You can create rooms with beautiful things where only good things occur: peaceful mornings, elegant parties, romantic dinners, love.

“If you design the most beautiful life, nothing ugly can get in.”

—- That’s the opening voiceover of Dirty John.

I don’t think I know anyone who says such things.

You might not either.

But you and I both know people who sometimes have unspoken aspirations, not unlike those, for a serene and trouble-free life.

Those people look a lot like us.

Because they are us.

Meanwhile, there’s that guy over there.

He’s clearing his throat to say something to us.

Let’s listen; meet him and me back here tomorrow.