Two months later, I made the biggest change of my life. I moved away. It ended up being the best and worst decision I ever made. I learned more about myself in the next six months than I had in the first 23 years of my life. It was when I learned how much I wanted to be with Brooke, how much I cared about her. It’s when I learned she was the single most important thing I’ve ever had.
I moved to the South for six months to live alone in a city where I knew nobody. I found myself. It was something I always wanted to do and something I always said I would do. I was in an environment where I could mold my own world, where nobody had preconceptions of the kind of person I was, where I could find out what I was really made of. It was the most amazing experience I’d ever had in my young, cushioned life. I suggest that everyone in their early twenties does it before life takes over. Live alone somewhere you don’t know anyone. Transform yourself, transform your mind. Become an adult.