I wake up. Today won't be like every other day. Today will be different. Today won't be different because of some actions or lack of actions that I plan to take, it won't change because of the sun rising at a different time or the moon rotating at a certain speed; those things have no impact. Their effect is a myth. No, what I'm talking about is something real, something sustainable, something genuine. What I'm talking about can't be contained within the pages of a magazine or the pictures on a card, it can't be summed up in paragraphs in horoscopes or spoken by the mere mouths of those who claim to see tomorrow... What I'm talking about can only be lived. It has to be experienced. It has to be felt. What I'm talking about is a change that only those aware of it can feel while those unaware wither away hoping, dreaming. But this is not a dream, this is happening right here and right now. This is not time standing still and waiting for you to act, this is time being forced to stop while you step in and show it who's boss. This is time being ripped out of sync and shouted at, shaken, thrown about. Today is the day I take control of things, today is the day I stand up to be counted. I am ready for you, present, give me all you've got to offer. The morning sunshine can't hold me back as it glares through my blinds, the cold spring air can't stop me in my tracks as it whispers in through my door, the harsh floor beneath my feet can't make me change my mind. I know what I have to do, I know where I have to be and I know I have to do it there now: I have to shower. This shower can dictate the next sixteen to eighteen hours if it goes badly but I'm not in the mood to let things go wrong, not now, not anymore. It will go to plan because I will make it go to plan. Wash. Dry. Dress. Dress to be the man I want to be not the man I am but bearing it mind the budget I have likely dictates that I wear the clothes I already own. But damn it I will wear them well. I will wear these clothes like the man I want to be would wear these clothes. These clothes bring with them action, determination and focus. The focus that says I can do whatever I want to do, the determination that says nothing can stop me, the action that makes it all possible. This is what I am right now. I am a man wearing the clothes I want to wear to do the things I want to do at the time I want to do them and neither destiny nor fate can hold me back. Only I can stop me now and I have no intention of doing that. Goals are there to be scored, destinations there to be reached, breakfast is there to be eaten. This is the time to choose cereal over toast, tea over coffee and spoons over forks which would prove highly impractical. Move over, decisions, I am coming through and I've no time for you. The only way is the right way and the right way is whatever way I go. You're either with me or against me and those against me don't stand a chance. Not now. Not this time. Not today.
Because today is not like every other day.
Today is a Wednesday.