Gemotions

The request popped up at a moment when he was feeling utterly defeated. He’d just lost a client, the project he'd been working on for months was on the brink of collapse, and he felt the weight of his failures pressing down. And then, there it was. A friend request from Kevin, the boy who had relentlessly bullied him in high school. He felt a sudden, unexpected jolt, a current of something that felt like… something else.

He closed his laptop, the dim glow of the screen illuminating his face. He felt suddenly capable, alive. He walked over to his bookshelf and pulled out a novel, a classic he'd been putting off reading for months. He sat down and began to read, his focus sharp, his mind clear, a feeling of restless expectancy building within him.