Of many of the insights from GetReal, one in particular has been the most useful for me. The idea is simple: Acceptance without action is information; Action without acceptance is hard work. This insight hit me like a ton of bricks when I read it, then it crept up...

…Not one day goes by, it seems, that I do not feel some kind of loneliness. Right now as I write this, I’m feeling lonely. The larger desire here is obviously “connection.” But what I have found is that when I feel like this, it is because I am taking something else...

One of the biggest struggles that come from building a life that pursues, relentlessly, my own freedom, a life that does not wait for others to give me permission to take actions my body desires, is finding others who also live like this, that is, on their own terms....