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“Priced Per Unit”

Daily writing prompt
You’re writing your autobiography. What’s your opening sentence?

Big numbers used to scare me.

When I negotiated cases of plastic or paper bags, I always looked at the total:

$520.

$880.

$1,200.

It felt heavy.

Too big.

So I’d hesitate.

Yesterday something shifted.

Instead of negotiating the case price, I broke it down per unit.

Per bag.

Per piece.

And suddenly the number wasn’t intimidating — it was logical.

The larger case wasn’t more expensive in essence.

It just contained more units.

The per-unit cost was nearly the same.

It wasn’t “too much.”

It was just more.

That realization hit me harder than it should have.

Because that’s my life.

I’ve looked at the total time it’s taken me to fix things — years.

The debt.

The school.

The weight.

The writing.

It looks massive when you view it as a whole.

But broken down per unit?

One assignment.

One workout.

One post.

One case sold.

One better decision.

Small things don’t look powerful — until they compound.

Maybe that’s my autobiography.

Not destiny.

Not luck.

Just per-unit effort.



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