Like the spokes on his bicycle, Carson’s days go round and round, pedaling his way home from school, the days turn into nights, but his nights all have one thing in common. Like most boys he is a dreamer and every night he would open his bedroom window of the second story home where he lived and climb out onto his roof where he became almost anything he cared to be. He would look up at the moon and being the super hero he was, he would try to figure out how he was going to save all the lonely people on the moon. Would he use the stars or the clouds to reach them? Only time would tell. As time went by so did Carson. He had become more interested in the stars and there on that very roof they became his friends. He could just lay there and talk to them about anything. He was getting older and his thoughts were getting more complicated. There were questions without answers and like most of us, he wanted answers. On that night the sky was empty - not a friend anywhere.
That night when he fell asleep he had a dream. It was empty as the sky, just a voice that told him that the very next night the sky would have five stars and for a period of five days they would begin to disappear one by one. On the fifth night only one star would remain. It was on this night that he was to make a wish, and if he was true to his heart, without being selfish, his wish would come true. For four days Carson climbed out onto his rooftop and watched the stars disappear. On the fifth night - just as his dream and the voice told him - only one star remained. Closing his eyes he made his wish. He would have to wait until the next night to see if this wish would come true. The following day was long - there was great anticipation. When the bell rang, he was the first to reach his bike. Carson pedaled his way home. After dinner, he helped his mother clean up the dishes and made his way upstairs to his room. He stood at his window - a little afraid to open it - and climb onto the roof. What if his wish didn’t come true? I guess there would only be one way to find out. He opened his window, and with his eyes closed felt his way out onto the roof. Laying there on his back he finally opened his eyes. Carson took a gasp and the biggest smile came to his little face. That night he laid there longer than most. In fact, his mother had to call him in to go to bed.
As the spokes go round and round, Carson traded his bike for his first car, graduated high school and was off to college. It was there that he met the first girl that he ever looked at as something more than just a friend. As the two spent more and more time together the relationship grew stronger. She was a wonderful girl with a beautiful smile that shared the same interest as he did. The conversations would go on for hours. He was doing well in college and was finishing up with his last semester when he ask her over for dinner. Carson cooked the most wonderful meal and as she sat staring at him she noticed he was acting a little nervous. She excused herself to go to the ladies room and when she returned he was nowhere to be found. She searched downstairs and then decided to go upstairs where she found an open window of his study. She climbed onto the roof and joined him there. Laying side by side they both had a wonderful conversation about the time when they first met and every second since.
Carson then sat up pulling her with him so that he could be face to face for the only answer to the question he had been wanting to ask for some time now. He took her hand and placed the most beautiful ring in it . Closing her hand tight around the band of gold he asked if she would like to spend the rest of her life with him. As she opened her hand she began to cry. It was the perfect proposal and the perfect place she explained. She began telling him a story of how when she was a little girl her mother and father took her to see the most wonderful play, a love story, one that was full of happiness. Leaving the theater that night she had noticed the sky full of stars. There must of been a million! She explained how she had closed her eyes and wished for a life like that and if the star that she wished on would save a prince for her then she promised to always to be happy. She and Carson were married and it was a wedding to remember, not traditional as in most. All I will say is they had the most unique wedding cake, a star that simply read, “a wish and a promise”.
My grandson was born May 14, at 10:58 in the morning, and as I held him for the first time, all i could think about is what i could give him that would last forever, something that he wouldn’t out grow or get bored with. That evening i walked outside looked up into the sky and picked a star. I wished him all the love and happiness that my life has been filled with and that I would be here to share it with him. I love my grandson and although his life or the way his lives it may be different then what i have written here, I know it will be blessed with love.
Grand paw.
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