On having outrageous goals

The wilder the better

I don’t think I ever really had an awareness that my goals and ambitions may seem absolutely batshit crazy and out of reach for some. Perhaps it’s the privilege of having been raised by hippie parents who indulged my every lofty dream and never really told me things aren’t possible. When thinking about how I’d make a dream a reality, my thought was always ‘I’ll figure it out.’

I’m coming up on year 43 of figuring it out now and that mantra has taken me some places.

At 23, I moved to New York for a year and half, having somehow managed to land an internship at a magazine there. I’d never been to New York before. I had no place to live when I landed. I figured it out.

At 25, I moved to Tokyo. I’d never been, I couldn’t speak the language. I figured it out (well, not the language part, but I got by!) and had one of the most incredible years of my life.