Reincarnation Blues

by Michael Poore

It wasn’t easy. That was the first thing about learning anything worthwhile; you had to have patience. You had to know that if you tried to do a thing a thousand times, you could usually succeed in doing it, and if you practiced that thing a million times, you could do it very well. And so on. Mastering a thing was not magic, just hard work.

“It’s not disappearing,” he said. “It’s concentration. It’s how you become great at something. Others think you’re obsessed, and you’re the only one who understands what you’re looking for.” “Which is what?” “Perfection.”