I slid to the cold, hard tile floor.

“Hello?” I half whispered - half spoke into the phone, bracing for the potential impact of rejection, but also bracing for the potential impact of change.

Everything has potential.

Potential for failure,

Potential for hurt,

But also potential for success

And a potential for transformation.

When performing a heart transplant, one must first remove the faulty patient heart.

The patient is then placed on machines that act as their artificial heart.

For a moment, a mere blimp in time, the patient is reliant on those machines.

One mistake can erase someone's everything.

Years of memories, of pains, of happiness.

Gone in result of a single moment.

After the patient has been successfully transfered onto the machine, the donor heart is then put in place and connected.

In this moment, the donor and the patient share many similarities.

Both are without a heart.

Both have lived and loved.

And both have been brought to this hospital to undergo significant changes that will not only affect their lives, but the lives of those around them.

The donor has lived their life, and now it's the final exit for them.

They have been brought through those doors for the last time.

But where there is the end, there is always someones beginning.

It's what balances out the universe.

The death of the donor is what helps the patient see another day.

This could be the end for me. I could be the donor, on my way to my final destination.

Or i could be the patient, starting new again.

I wonder if he’ll say hello

I wonder if this will be the start of our life together

After all these years, finally together.

My mind drifts to possible memories to be made,

Possible experiences to share

This could be the start of something great,

The start of something i've longed for for years.

This could be the moment that finally confirms that I have indeed been making the right decisions,

And all my right decisions have led me here.

I hear him sigh into the phone before I hear a faint but audible

*Click*