I was lucky to grow up with phenomenal parents who were into talking about things. When something hit me hard as a kid, we'd just talk about it. I'm usually pretty open about what's going on with me. I'm not a great actor in the sense that I can't fake it if I'm going through something difficult.

Improvise. Write your own damn story.

At the end of the day, right now, right here, wherever you are, you can make a choice to be present and happy and fulfilled.

Change is a constant. Anything you get attached to will one day be gone. Love the things you love as best as you can love them in the time you have in their presence. And that change, though I'm often fearful of it, has presented me with some of the greatest surprises I've ever received. I'm learning to become friends with it.

The destination you think is going to make you happy, doesn't.

Silence. There are times it's the only thing I want and I wonder how I'll ever go back to the world of noise and distraction.

I'm excited to begin the next chapter of my life with an amazing woman.