Getting Better

He agrees it was what was best and that it was, in fact, the only alternative.  He could think of no other way to do it, but then he asked what else there might be since he did not want to do the only thing.  Being better was O.K., but getting there was something else, and that idea of having to be better forever was something else all together.  Talking about it was easy, even exhilarating, but doing it was so far beyond talk, and that was the tough part.