The Dream You Thought Would Never End....

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You're forty years old and are happily married to your spouse of 15 years. On your fifteenth anniversary, you're offered an opportunity to go back to your childhood and correct a horrible mistake you made, without question you greatly accept. You fix the mistake and continue through the stages of your life as before. However, the day you and your spouse met, never happened.

You thought it was the wrong day you didn't think that you were too late. Going back to that spot every day you realize they're never coming. Then you think that if you go to their house you can fix this. So you drive to their house and knock on the door. It's not them that answer, it's their mother.

You ask her if your spouse is home. Yet the response you get is no. She got married. You were even invited. They went on their honeymoon.

You realize that it wasn't you who they invited to the wedding, it was another you. So you nod your head slowly and agree. All you can think about is how you're too late. How you'd rather have left the one mistake as is and never made this one. She asked you if you wanted to come in but you said no and walked home.

Devastated you turn the key to unlock your apartment door. As you walk into your apartment you hear music playing. You turn the corner and see it. It's her, the one you've been searching for. She tells you that you're the one she wants. She never got married; it was a plan to get you back.

You run to her, she runs to you, it feels like slow motion. Then you get a weird feeling. She loosens her grip on you and you the same towards her. Suddenly you step back fast, dropping her on the bed to get her own balance. Then you flash up realizing you are in your bed. It was all a dream.

However, you realize you're in your bed alone, seeing no sign of any other life but yours. Jumping up you rush to the main room of your home to see your spouse sitting there calm and collected, quietly ready the morning news and listening to your children playing with the action figures you bought them. As you calm down once more she notices you, seeing you're in the midst of a breakdown she sends the children outside to play and gestures you over.

As you sit next to her, your breathing calms, your heart stops skipping beats, and all is well. The day goes on as you play with your children, mow the lawn, and help your spouse with the laundry. After dinner everyone is settling down, you tuck in your children and get in bed with your spouse. As you and her drift off to sleep your mind starts to wonder.

Except now it's not a dream to leave your worrying away.