Acquiring

[ahunter3]

As a child I thought it a good thing that there should be a system. Like patriotism but nonspecific, just the general notion that there was an ideal way to do things and we were those who had sought it and acquired it. Or were in the process of acquiring it.

Always in the process. Always there in the process, acquiring it. Not a state of being there having acquired it. The act of becoming.