Archive for January 5th, 2008
God in 500 Words
If you could step into someone else’s shoes for a day, who would it be and why?
In an interview during the 1994 US Amateur Golf tournament, a reporter asked a giraffe-like, 19-year-old competitor who he most admired in the sport. “Me,” replied the young golfer.
“What?” said the incredulous writer.
“You see,” Tiger Woods explained, “every golfer has weaknesses. I take the best qualities from each player and add them to an ideal golfer. I aspire to play like him, and since he only exists in my head, I must respond ‘me’.”
As an avid reader of biographies and student of people’s lives, I too have developed an Ideal Man in my mind. He is at once many people and no one at all. I would like to be him, but only for a day. Let me describe him to you.
