Slow Motion Future

She used to think the future was so far away — a distant dream that was always disappearing into the horizon.

But it was always right there, unfolding in the moment before her in every choice she made.

Still, she never took her eyes off that vanishing point in the distance, so she didn’t see it in front of her happening.

She didn’t understand that every decision was not a step not closer to a rainbow’s end but a step deeper into what and who she already was.

It was a surprise to her to suddenly be told that the horizon would be unreachable and then to look down and see she was enveloped not in a flower, but a coiling thing of her own making.