I asked,
“Where do you see yourself,
a few years from now……”,
I feel like you can tell a lot about a person based on how they answer that question.
It’s telling.
“Hopefully, everywhere and nowhere.
I want to go as long as possible,
forever if I can,
feeling as if I have never truly arrived -
and be at complete peace with that.
I don’t need life’s little checkpoints to convince me that I am growing or progressing.
The memories I accumulate along the way
will do that for me.
I just want to live out loud,
as brightly as possible,
and create as much distance between myself
and whatever the world tells me I’m supposed to be.
The road is my own to travel,
and there is no predestination set,
there is no going back.
I’m realizing I was never meant to fall in line,
or follow the well-worn paths.
Really, when all is said and done,
I hope that I’m en route to everywhere I have
never been, feeling things I have never felt,
and doing things I was told I never would.
I intend to make liars out of a few,
and history with the others.”
J. Raymond
