For my friends who just can't stop.

"It's one of those moments when I think, yeah...It's all worth it. And my life is how I want it. Right now." -Kristin Goodman, a friend from Parsons during finals week her last semester


We all strive for success. How you define what success is, well, that's up to you. For me, that road towards it began when I discovered the things that I am most passionate about; when I started to formulate this big picture. It wasn't forced; it never is. All of a sudden, it seems, you get this "Aha!" moment. Then we realize that all the little moments in life were leading us in the right direction all along. Life just needed us to realize it.

You may not always love that particular thing you're doing, in that moment. No one likes waking up at 6 in the morning then staying at the office until 11. No one likes staying at school until 1:30 AM, then taking the train back to Jersey and getting home by 3, then having to be up by 7 to get to class on time. No one likes running on zero sleep. Or working 7 days a week for basically nothing, and some times for literally nothing. We don't like putting ourselves in situations that are so incredibly difficult and seemingly impossible that we wonder if we're gonna come out of it alive. We don't love that feeling of being close to failure, but know that if we push a little harder, we're closer to achieving that sometimes seemingly allusive dream, even if it's just a little.

"Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want something badly enough. They are there to keep out the other people." -Randy Pausche, The Last Lecture
Like I said, we may not always love that particular thing we're doing, in that moment. What we do love, is knowing that we're taking steps, and it's all towards making sure that big picture is just as awesome in real life as it is in our heads.

That, and we're just crazy. Passionately, undeniably crazy.