A Good Look

To not care, to be carefree. He wanted it, but his mind wouldn't seem to allow him that sort of peace. It was all too easy for many to focus on the next step forward, to chase that next goal, to aspire toward something larger than themselves, but they rarely thought about what it meant to sit at that height. 

If you really did have the power to wave a hand and make everything you want come true, to force it into being, would it all even be worth it? 

'What a uselessly human thought,' Leonel thought, still laughing to himself. 

He was laughing because he could already see himself taking it for granted, as though he would definitely reach that height, as though he would be proposed with this question one, inevitable day… and when that time came, what choice would he make?