Book Overview
We romantics are idealists to the core. So when the world doesn’t fit our notion of peace and tranquility, we write poetry, plays, stories or songs. When adversity threatens, we have a tendency to sing, dance or compose our way to that place in our minds where love reigns, where life resolves itself and for a little while, heaven comes to earth. Because of that quirk or kink in our make-up, we romantics make lots and many mistakes. Very likely many more than realists, perfectionists or people who do life by the numbers. We are far from perfect and we freely own it. However, we are also the oil in the machinery of life to keep it running. We use our abilities to encourage and make people happy. Sometimes we fail miserably but we keep trying.
Buddy Hendricks was a hopeless, incurable romantic. Generally defined, a romantic is a person who often takes an idealized or old-fashioned view towards life and love. Over the years that at the end of the day, Buddy would retreat into his romantic world and imagine a universe where everybody got along with each other. A magical, happy place.