"Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don't freeze up." Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again.
I followed Thomas Wolfe's advice and I made my mistakes, I took my chances, and I am going to keep on going but about 100 miles to the east. I am going "home" again this weekend. Not my real home but my adoptive home of Charlotte. It is just the breath of fresh air that I need. I have really been beat up emotionally and physically over the course of the past week but I am going to a place where I get to be unapologetically me. My friends are looking forward to me coming down for the weekend, a party has been planned, and a great time will be had.
It has been 4 years since I have been "home." The last time I was there was my birthday in 2010. It was a party then too. My friends are happy to see me, they value the time they get to spend with me, and they treat me special. You can't ask for anymore than that. Everyone should get to feel special once in a while.
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