“That’s what I’m trying to tell you….,” he said excitedly, “That’s the big secret. The big lie. When you are a child they say you can be ANYTHING you want to be, if you just apply yourself. It’s bullshit…but only in the sense of the limits.”
He sat back and closed his eyes.
“You can be as much as you want to be as much as time allows. The thing is, simply, you have to do what you have to do. You will make mistakes. You will fail. People will ridicule you at some point, but you have to get up. Yes….get the FUCK up. Its not how you achieve the goal. Its really how close you come to it. No one wins. Its all about proximity. How close you are to being what you want to be.”
He just stared at me after he said it. I wanted to say something but I couldn’t. I really didn’t know WHAT to say.
After awhile he chuckled and poured himself another shot. The night was still young. I figured I had at least another hour until he stopped making sense.




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