Small bites

It's an adventure!

My friends have just completed a move across the state with the intent to "change their fate" - as all great adventures tend to do. The roles were reversed from me 7 years ago. You won't crash and burn. You'll get scraped up along the way. You're taking way more possessions with you than I did, I see the bed made the cut, good call.

I could tell you that I'm sad to see you go. The reality is I'm not. I'm excited that this chapter of your lives is coming to a close. It's been a super long chapter with alot of stress and suck in it. It's not my favorite chapter for you guys. I know you can write better. That's why I'm your biggest fan.

I bet if I asked you what "the" moment was, when you knew, you were going to change everything - you'd be able to tell me with clarity. If it was anything like mine, it'll be frozen in your memory pristine. I didn't act on that moment until 6 months later. I was just sitting at a red light, squinting into the sun, next to the same red car I'd driven next to for several weeks in a row; knowing what I was going to eat for dinner, what I was going to do before bed, what time I'd go to bed to wake up to do the same thing again the next day. I knew that life was suffocating to me. I knew in those moments as well, that it was going to be a short lived one.

Why am I telling you this story, you probably already know? Because despite everything that's happened since that move, I don't regret it. I've never regretted it. Not even in my lowest moments. Not even in the scariest ones. That's my greatest hope for your adventure here. That you never regret it.

My tears that day were selfish ones. They were filled with memories of walks through beautiful scenery, to a court house, to bars. They were filled with hookahs, laughter, and solace. They held a "6 year old life time best friend friendship" as well as a "friendship that just gets better as it ages, slowly and wonderfully." They were the outpouring of love for a journey I had already traveled and a journey I couldn't go on.

So jam to your music, rock your rad selves on to the next chapter, and don't blink. It's going to happen so fast you'll wonder where the time went. It will be ok. It will be the greatest change to ever happen to you, until the next one.