Life Advice

A few months ago, I left my job to work on Unfinished Man full time. This extra time gave me an opportunity to really sit back and reflect on my life, and decide what’s important to me. One area I thought a lot about was my friendships. I knew that I had good friends, but I didn’t really know what made them good friends. In typical organizational-freak-manner, I started to write a list. I wrote out all the qualities that I felt were important to me in a friendship. A week later I was satisfied with what I wrote, saved it, and mostly forgot about it… until last night. 

As we transition from children, to teenagers, to adults, we change. At least, most of us do. We shed many of our childish ways, and grow as people, both intellectually and emotionally.  Many of us seek new experiences in our teenage and early adult years, like exciting sports, and adventures in far off countries. The world is our oyster, and nothing is going to stop us from being interesting, exciting people for the rest of our lives. Right until that stops happening.

If I’ve noticed one thing over the last year, it’s that many people reach a point in their lives where they just stop doing things. They go to work, they buy groceries, they