Living in Paradise

The other day I was helping one of our fourth graders get ideas for an extensive paper they have to write: My Utopia. She was having trouble coming up with what she would like her utopia to be like so I gave her some of my thoughts to get her thinking processes going.

I told her that if I could create any kind of world I wanted I would start with one where the people are gracious, caring and fun loving. The weather is beautiful and flowers bloom all year round but if you want snow you can get to snow easily. Then I stopped and said, "Wait, I have that here." Needless to say, my Utopia didn't give her much help. Yet, her Utopia came out probably better than mine. Here's a part.

"My utopia is where all the family lives and you don't have to miss seeing your grandma or uncles. There would be pajama parties every night and in school you would only do reading, art and science."

I think I would like her Utopia.