THE STRUGGLE

As I walked towards her, I felt that something unthinkable was about to happen. For a brief

moment I hesitated and as I looked forward, I realized that our distance was just growing longer

larger. I pulled myself together and started shortening the distance between us. Just as I

approached her from behind, I went to tap her on the shoulder, but my body stopped moving as

if an otherworldly force was stopping me. When I looked up, I noticed she had strayed farther,

almost as far away as when I had begun. Despair had begun to settle in, was this a hopeless

cause? Was that feeling just my imagination…. No, I know that there was some truth in that

feeling, right now I just had to push forward.

In my moment of thought I failed to notice that a myriad of things had appeared behind her, from

people to objects, but none of those were going to stop my newfound determination. I started

making my way through the crowd, as I went through, I noticed that these people were not only

my friends and family, but also hers. I shuffled through them, nonetheless.

After clearing the crowd, I found myself facing what seemed to be an assortment of random

objects, but upon closer inspection I could see that these were all related to our day to day life.

I started to go through the maze trying to find my way out, I soon realized that the maze would

sometimes shift, but I didn’t allow it to affect me, I kept my goal in mind and kept slowly but surely

making my way through, until eventually I cleared it.

I looked around and spotted her. I started sprinting towards her, when I was closing in, I stretched

out my hand and planted it on her shoulder. As she turned around a blinding white light came

upon me and then…

Daniel G.