Alex Eicher

Here is the truth about September: It sneaks up on you and all of a sudden it’s autumn, and you don’t know what to do with your recently orphaned August daydreams so you tuck them between the pages of brand new notebooks and you leave them in the corners of your sweatshirt pockets to gather lint and you set them on fire until all the trees are smouldering red and orange and yellow.

That is why it is so important to let certain things go. To release them. To cut loose. People need to understand that no one is playing with marked cards; sometimes we win and sometimes we lose. Don’t expect to get anything back, don’t expect recognition for your efforts, don’t expect your genius to be discovered or your love to be understood. Complete the circle. Not out of pride, inability or arrogance, but simply because whatever it is no longer fits in your life. Close the door, change the record, clean the house, get rid of the dust. Stop being who you were and become who you are.

Let go, or be dragged.

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

I exist in two places. here, and where you are.

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Be curious.