In Five Years

by Rebecca Serle

The future is the one thing you can count on not abandoning you, kid, he’d said. The future always finds you. Stand still, and it will find you. The way the land just has to run to sea. —MARIANNE WIGGINS, EVIDENCE OF THINGS UNSEEN

This is what I’ve always wanted. To be somewhere that stops at nothing. To be surrounded by the pace and rhythm of greatness.

“I think sacrifice is in direct opposition to manifestation. If you want your dreams you should look for abundance, not scarcity.”

No one who has lost a sibling at twelve can say with a straight face: everything happens for a reason.