He had it all....finally he sat atop an....empire....that spanned the globe....he was the richest,,,,the most powerful man in the world....and he had built it by himself!!!!
Starting as a small business he had aggressively gone after one company after another until he had dominated the field.....then he would look at another field.....and another....and another.....
He had more money than anyone had ever had in the history of the world....he wielded power that Genghis khan would have envied....the world bowed to him.
But happiness was not a part of his life....
He dreamed often of the days when he would run in the fields behind his family's home....those wonderful times when he could just be alone....away from all the pressures to be a success....when he would just run and imagine himself in another life....
How he wished that he could go back there.....run in those fields again....dream of how it could be....
But there was always so much to do.....so much on his desk every day....meetings with this one or that one.....calls to make....calls to return....presidents and kings who wanted to speak to him on urgent matters....
His life had driven him to the heights of power....but he wasn't happy....
He kept thinking about the dreams.....
In the dreams he would run through the fields.....but not as the boy he was.....but as the girl he so wanted to be.....the fields had been some kind of magic.....he actually felt his skirts swirling about him as he ran.....he dreamt that he could become her if he ran hard enough...
Finally he'd had enough....he burst out of his office and handed the company to his secretary.....he said he had something to do.....maybe he'd be back....
And he went back....
Back to where he'd been that boy....
That sad lonely boy who had sought happiness in the business world....
That boy who had succeeded in everything he touched....
That man who had everything except happiness....
And he went around the house to the field beyond....and he remembered how it had felt...
How he could have been a pretty girl running among the wildflowers....
And he ran.....he ran for all he was worth....he ran from the man he was...he ran to become the woman he wished he was all those years ago.....
She was there....the magic was still there.....he ran so hard he thought his heart would burst....but he knew if he could catch her he could become her.....he could leave everything else behind and be the woman that he'd dreamed of for so long....
And it happened for him....
The magic happened for him....
He was her.....the woman....the one in his dreams....and now he was happy!!!!
Several days later his body was found.....a local woman discovered it when she was out walking in the field.....
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