Rachel studies the situation.

Rachel met someone else.

I was devastated. She was confused. We both suffered.

Hey, I realized, this relationship means more to me than it seemed! The time had come to seriously consider what our relationship meant to me and what the future of it would be, even though it might already be too late.

I awoke at 4:00am on a Tuesday morning in a state of astounding mental clarity. I grabbed a pen and notebook and knew some of the most important decisions of my life were going to be made in the next four hours. We spend most of our lives idly floating along through day-to-day events. There are rare moments when life challenges us to become something more than we thought we could be.