A Beautiful Fiction

I had a thought while listening to a wonderful song by Colin Hay:

If endeavoring to believe that the World is a beautiful place, replete with amazing happenings both minor and major, where everything that happens is an opportunity – for learning and growth at least – is a fiction, then oh what a beautiful and worthy fiction it is.

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