Have you ever experienced childlike wonder and fascination? The strangest thing captivated me this morning--a water truck. You know, those trucks that spray water over a construction site to keep the dust down. Maybe it was the early morning sun making me take notice, but I was drawn to watching it while sitting at a red light on my drive to work. As I watched, I started thinking how wonderful it was. Wonderful? Thats odd, I thought. Why would I consider it wonderful to spray large amounts of water on a dusty construction site? Because I wish I could do that job. No, seriously. I wanted to be that guy that gets to drive that truck around to different construction sites, spraying water on the dirt.

As I drove past, continuing on my way to work, it dawned on me that I was thinking the things that my son used to say aloud as a little, little boy. "I wish I could be a tractor driver when I get big." Or "I want to hold the stop sign when I'm a man," he'd say, referring to the guy who held up traffic so that large trucks and tractors could work on the road. Once, he even announced loudly as we were leaving the grocery store one day, "I think I will be the lady who takes our money at this store when I grow up." Getting past our initial shock that he wanted to be "the lady" we knew what he meant, and we encouraged him to be whatever he wanted to be when he grew up.

But why wait to grow up? Why not be that somebody right now? I applaud people who take a crisis, such as losing a job, and turn it into an opportunity to change their own life for the better. Lose a job and find that you can make big money by selling your handcrafted items online. Get told by a teacher that you're not a good writer, and become one of the most-loved fiction writers of all time.

Right now, I love my job and the people I work with. But if that's ever taken away from me, you might want to look for me in one of those water trucks. I'll be the one with a big grin on my face.