by Chris McGinty
There is this thing he repeated to himself over and over every day. It was a farfetched thing that over the years became less and less farfetched. Even as he got closer to it he continued to repeat. They say it’s all in the repetition you know.
Almost never did a day go by that he didn’t repeat the thing. At first, maybe he didn’t even believe it. At times, maybe he believed it too much. He would have thought the closer he got the more he would believe, but that didn’t turn out to be true either.
When it finally happened, he was definitely happy. It had been years of believing. It still felt like a victory. He realized, though, what he truly wanted changed as time passed, and the thing he got, while welcome, would be better if it was what he truly wanted now. He should have changed what he repeated somewhere along the way.