One Act Play: Daydreaming

Photography by Rita Bourland © 2013

Girl:  What’s a daydream?

Mother:  It’s a dream we have in the middle of the day when we stop thinking about now and start thinking about other things we’d like to be doing.

G:  What‘s the matter with thinking about now?

M:  There’s nothing the matter with thinking about now, but sometimes people need a little escape from the everyday things they have to do.

G:  What kind of everyday things?

M:  Oh, you know, like going to work, paying bills, mowing the lawn, going to the grocery, and doing the laundry

G:  So, a daydream is kind of like taking a vacation?

M:  Yes, kind of like that.

G:  Maybe people could try to have more fun in the now.

M:  How do you think they might do that?

G:  Well, for starters, they could take a bike ride or have a picnic in the backyard.  Or maybe they could do some coloring or painting, or tell stories to each other before bedtime.

M:  I like those ideas.  What else?

G:  They could order pizza for a whole week and not worry about going to the grocery!

M:  Do you think they might get sick of pizza?

G:  Maybe, but there are so many kinds.

M:  So, do you think we shouldn’t daydream?

G:  I guess it’s okay to daydream, but sometimes, when the teacher is making us recite the multiplication tables, I think about how I wish I was flying a kite, and then when she calls on me I don’t know the answer.

M:  So, maybe we need to do the things we have to do and try to have some fun in the now, but also reserve a little time for daydreaming. 

G:  Yeah, I think that’s good.  So, mom, what do you daydream about?

M:  I daydream about all the fun I’m going to have with my little girl when school gets out this summer. 

G:  Now, that’s my kind of daydream.