Let's Go

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Do you ever get this urge to run? To just drop everything that is currently going on in your life and just run away? Pack a bag and gas up your car and start driving? That’s how I feel every single day of my life. I just have this wild streak running through my blood. I want to see the world. I want to more than just see the world, I want to live it. I want to tangibly feel each and every city in my hand. Breath in the thick and smoggy air of New York. Soak in the Delta Blues. Bask in the sunshine in the middle of a field somewhere in the middle of Montana. I have this crazy notion stuck in my head telling me that I wasn’t just born to stay in one place and die there too. I was born to see the world. Born to walk alongside the Seine and take Holy Communion in a city that I cannot pronounce. I have this crazy notion that maybe I am not alone out here. That there are a multitude of people just like me, but they are too afraid to realize their full potential. Too afraid to spread their wings and fly. Too afraid to just live. Afraid to live for themselves. We live in a society where from a young age we are taught that it is selfish and wrong to focus on our own needs, that we should put others before ourselves always. Well, I’m officially calling b.s on that. There is absolutely nothing wrong to live selfishly and whole heartedly. So, get out from behind that screen, pack a bag, gas up the car, and let’s go.

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