The Big Plan

"THE BIG PLAN"

SCENE: A kitchen. 11pm. A laptop glows ominously. Cookie dough is present.

AMBITION:Okay. The dream. We're doing it.

ME: Love it. Step one?

AMBITION: Buy the equipment.

ME: We're not ready for equipment.

AMBITION: Fine. The certification.

ME: We haven't done the prerequisites.

AMBITION: Okay okay okay. *paces* ...Then we start the SKILLS. Tonight.

ME: It's 11pm.

AMBITION: GREAT MEN DON'T SLEEP.

ME: Great men absolutely slept.

AMBITION: *typing furiously* I've drafted a 47-page operations plan for a thing we will do someday, in a place we do not live, using skills we are learning from a PDF.

ME: ...Is the PDF color-coded?

AMBITION: With a table of contents.

ME: *long pause* ...Show me the PDF.

AMBITION: THAT'S MY BOY.

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EPILOGUE:

Someone who actually knows what they're doing, watching me:

"Maybe start smaller."

AMBITION: *whispering* ...smaller… EMPIRE.

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Sometimes my 5 year plan, has a 5 year plan.