Too Much Thinking

He could not believe it. The time had finally come. He had prepared his whole adult life for this very moment, and now it was here. There were times when he doubted, when he did not really believe this time would ever come. Now he knew it was not all in vain. He congratulated himself on sticking with it all these years. This was going to be his finest moment.

Or it would have been his finest moment if he had not spent so much time thinking about the fact that the time had finally come. It slipped right by him.