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Back before automatic situational analysis (or analyziz or whatever you kids are calling it these days) was hard-wired in with the cutting of the umbilical wire, we had to use our old thinkers to figure out the important things in life. We called this reflection or meditation or any number of things. Point was, that's what we had to do to assess our situation and act. Back in 2009, it was a time of reflection. I had been growing increasingly uneasy with life in New York. Surely, it is one of most terrific places, but it was becoming a place I didn't see myself in the long run.

I wanted less of this:

and more of this:

I wanted open fields.

Not crowded streets.

I wanted to be this person:

Not the lounging tourist in Times Square (where, yes, they did have lounge chairs at the time).

Also, not that it's bad to that person, I just didn't wanted to get too sucked into New York (and admittedly, that's not what New Yorkers do). Either way, I wanted to build these:

Not spend the rest of my fleeting youth running around and rocking out (although I never did really give that up).

There was a whole fine world out there and I wanted something different.

I realized that I would either have to:

a) change things up with a drastic career change (page 6)

b) change things up with a drastic location change (page 9)