Writing prompt inspired short story

I started the following piece of writing with a prompt from www.reddit.com
The prompt I chose was: '' A man lives his life three seconds ahead of everyone  else.

Three seconds to say goodbey.

At the age of eighty-five my grandpa  should have  known  he wouldn't live much longer. He always kept draiming about what he would do tomorrow, next week and in five years time.
He had just told me  he wanted to make a trip to New York by boat, as he used to do as a young man working for the Holland- America line.
Little could he know he that two minutes after that conversation he would die. My grandpa had a gift, he could see what the next three seconds were like. Just when he passed away. He only had three seconds to say goodbey. Before  I realised what he said he laid on the floor, dead.



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kept awake. - fiction

Monday:

Nothing has changed, I am on the same sleeping medicine as I  had been taking forever. Never does it seem to work. My mind always seems stronger than the medicine. I keep playing the ''what if ''game over and over and I never seem to win. What if things changed for the better? What would my life be like if my day dreams became reality and a long night sleep was not a dream anymore?

I decide to write down my dreams , one by one.

First, I would like a degree ,so I could get a job I could quit the very  moment my second dream comes true. Than  I would become a writer ,selling my books througout the world.I would buy a little house and spend my life in the sun teaching children how to read. That would be my dream life.  What would that lifestyle cost ?

As I was already awake,  I started to look around on websites listing houses in Thailand. I figured my ideal life would cost me  1500 euro's a month. I figured, I could make that amount of money with a day job. My journey  to make that amount of money in my spare time began.  

Tuesday- thursday

I have been writing for hours , and my first e-book  is almost done. I have been procastinating finishing my book for so long now. I  plan to publish it on my own. Maybe this could be the side business I have been dreaming off.  I only need to sell one book a day, that  should be doable.

Friday:

I set up a website and people seem interested in my book. 

Saturday:

Ten books where sold. I am tired but totally fulfilled with joy. I'm actually tired  and almost falling asleep. It is crazy how one week can change your life. 

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