“15 minutes
can save you 15 percent or more on your car insurance.”
Andy Warhol* #quote
Went to the book store and got myself some books, a luscious
literature extravaganza. Anyway onto the flash fiction!
The Man Who
Does Everything Over
Wallace would
have a special kind of recurring dream. He would never have a
duplicate dream, like always dreaming he was riding an elephant that
rode a singing unicycle. No, his recurring dreams were actually
dreams that were recurring events of the day.
Every night he
would dream the day over again, remembering the day he lived. A sort
of replaying of it all. He would know the big goof up he was going to
make and then not make it in the dream. Or say the right thing and
have things go perfectly.
But this land
of dreams did not make Wallace happier. It did not make Wallace live
guilt free and without regret. It filled him with more guilt and
regret. Because the choices he made in the first real day stayed and
the ones in the dream didn't. All his fixes didn't work. He always
knew what he did wrong and only managed to live what was right.
Wallace's story isn't a sad one though. Another chance at every
moment without it being recorded as truth made him much, much wiser.
To know all that could go wrong then get a chance to go right every
day? That made him wise. The guilt and regret from the dreams made
him a much smarter and happier man.
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