Brian, I give a fuck. Many of us do. We get it. We’re just like you. And you know I’m exactly 27 years ahead of you. In fact, I have a daughter your age.
Listen up:
GO! Move. Pick a city. Pack up. Take the leap. Meet the woman. Be who you are so you find the right one. Don’t settle for anything less. And plenty of us good-looking women do not choose ‘fake.’ We are also searching for the real deal. We often find him, but he’s drunk so we can’t really ‘see’ him, dig?
GO! Move. Leave that town. It doesn’t exist anymore — not in the way it did before. Only the exact moment you are sitting in right now exists, and what you do with it, how you see it, how you feel about it — that’s all that matters.
GO! Find a spot on the map, someplace you’ve imagined being, and light — even if for only a little while. Experience life now, while things are easier for you. What? You don’t think they’re easier now? Ha! One day, you’ll wake up and be saddled with a mortgage and kids and car payments and you may think you’ve ‘arrived,’ but inside, you’ll feel imprisoned — IF you don’t GO NOW. One day, you may wake up like I did — with physical limitations that keep you from going and doing what you’d dreamed of, at least not as easily.
A dear friend of mine once said, “The most expensive price to pay is regret.”
GO! Just fucking go, man.
