you’re free now to live your life the way you want for the first time ever it’s all your choice to make
and until you find someone who can live without telling you otherwise it will stay that way
and what i forgot to tell you is
(now keep in mind that nobody can tell you what to do this is just a suggestion but as you know i am blessed with superior knowledge)
that you and me (maybe macklemore but we don’t plan our futures around such fickle creatures as that disreputable species known as men) will find a cute little lake town the kind with rich snobbish retired folks and tourists and boat tours and all that watery nonsense
and we’ll open an adorable little shop and sell flowers all sorts of artistanal gifts and we’ll have coffee and warm homemade pastries in the mornings
and we might not get rich but we’ll make a living which is all that really matters
and we will retire about 70 sell our shop to some young whippersnappers that remind us of who we were when we were younger and more foolish
(but don’t assume we will be significantly less foolish at this point in fact i hope that we will actually age like some sort of hilarious variety of moldy cheese)
and we shall retire to our tiny little lake front residence and occupy a front porch with a glass crystal pitcher of well-spiked peach tea and jeer at everyone under the age of eighty who passes by
and that, my dear is what i wanted to express to you that you’ve got an entire life ahead of you and cannot afford to be put on the back burner for somebody else’s shimmery dreams of grandeur
so don’t think too hard about my plan because that’s all just castles in the clouds the story i tell myself at night when i’m too worried about the future to get to sleep
but think about this
today was not the end today was another day in the very mucky and unsubstantiated middle segment of your life
(the middle is the worst like the middle of an afghan or the middle of a poem that is quickly derailing from the original point and i am afraid that when we’re neither young nor old but middle aged nobody will laugh at our jokes except ourselves so maybe it doesn’t even matter)
and now you get to wake up tomorrow and continue on with your life the way you want it
(which isn’t to say you’ll live it alone forever but you must live it alone until you know you can survive alone)
so this is what i’ve been meaning to tell you
other people come and go (except me you’re stuck there) but you will spend more time with yourself than anybody else
and i’ve been meaning to tell you life goes on and you’re going to get old and it’s better to grow old at peace with your choices than to be young forever and fooling yourself into thinking things will change so there’s no doubt you did the right thing
so here’s the point of all this
i love you and have always tried my best to be your biggest supporter but that’s going to change today
because today was your first lesson in being your own biggest supporter
so cheers to this the future growing old and growing happy