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The project is a self-actualization project I started in an act of self-love. The product of a mid-life identity crisis: a project to discover who I was, what I believed in, who I love/hate, in an environment free of external pressures to conform or self-censor.
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What I don't think I ever expected though was that I could make friends like this. While just being myself, without trying to 'fit in.'
Making friends wasn't the point of this account.
But here we are.
Some of you fuckers were crying when saying goodbye. I saw that shit.
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These memories will last forever, probably.
The friends I made - well, I hope at least some of them reach out. The ones that don't are going to get some serious side-eye next year.
And anyone who I pissed off along the way - apologies, and I'd love to talk things out sometime.
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The days before I got to Austin were probably some of the worst I've had in my life. Nonetheless, there I was, having fun.
None of it was resolved, but if you spend your life focusing on the terrible past or the dark future, you won't have time to enjoy the pleasant present.
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What I think is particularly important about this week is that we got a lot of introverted but kind, moral, and intelligent people, and got them in a room and connected them.
Some of you have probably just made friends that you'll go on to change the world with.
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For me, this is my third time ever meeting internet friends. It's always sort of the same three thoughts:
1. Where the fuck have these kinds of people been all of my life?
2. Is this going to change things, now that we're no longer exclusively internet friends?
3.
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I don't really have answers to any of these questions.
But I do have the feeling that if I want to grow as a person, I need to keep doing this - keep living as . Keep committing to reckless and wild adventures.
Need to spend more time with my favorite people.
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My life now is really unstable - no job, no apartment, no certain sense of self - but I'm going to keep taking chances and taking on adventures and see where that takes me.
Adventures bring experiences.
Experiences bring wisdom.
Wisdom brings growth.
Therefore, more adventures!
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I hope some of you join me on a few of them. One day, we'll all accumulate enough wisdom that we'll retire to the top of a mountain and make people make long and treacherous climbs up there to get cryptic life advice from us.
Until we meet again, my friends! GOOD NIGHT!
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this is so lovely, thanks for writing 🥲