Here

is the thing.

 

This is what I want so bad for Nicholas to understand.

If you don't decide what it is you want, can you ever even begin to go get it?

And once you decide what you want, will you ever get it if you don't go for it?

It won't just come to you, not how it works.

 

Look at you.

I can imagine what people were saying when you decided to join the Army.

When you decided to get your degree.

On and on and on.

 

Life is short.

Be adventurous.

Set goals.

Go get 'em.

 

and if you don't reach them?

So fucking what.

Anybody can sit on the sidelines and be a nay-sayer.

 

In the words of George Carlin, "What are you going to do? Read People magazine and eat at Wendy's all your life?"

 

Yeah...uh...fuck that.

 

Better to reach for the stars and end up at the moon than to have never tried if you ask me.

 

I wouldn't trade this journey for anything Lucy, not for anything.