I shouldn’t be awake now

But I am

Too much to do today to be tired.

Do I try to go back to sleep?

Or is this my body’s way of giving me an early start?

If I get up now, maybe I’ll go to bed earlier tonight.

Then everything will reset and be right with the world again....

It occurred to Tom that there were fundamentally two ways to look at the world. One way was a narrow ditch with high walls, channelling him through to an inevitable future. The other an open field or meadow, brimming with life, options and possibilities.

He preferred the second way though it scared him as he felt it gave him more responsibility. “ I am the captain of my soul,” he thought and yet ...