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[lucid_2point718]

I'm going to go visit Seattle on Wednesday-Saturday. The excitement is magnified by the apprehension. In case you haven't gotten the memo, I'm moving to Seattle in August for about 5 years. I've never lived outside of Austin. Sitting here at school, I look outside and I see this little park on campus I used to play in when I was a little kid. My

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Bag packing

[missdeekupps]

I can really relate. Two years ago, I packed my bags, loaded my car and shipped all of my possessions by UPS to Austin. I had no job, no prospects and no friends here. I just picked Austin at random because I liked the vibe and heard great things about the progressiveness of the city. I didn't really have the sense to doubt the wisdom of my decision at the time. It was challenging and a little scary and one of the best things I've ever done. I suspect that you will find Seattle to be the same for you. And I am sure that you will have lots of Austin visitors to keep you company. ; )

[zonkism]

I think 5 years will be absolute most that you can tolerate a severe lack of sunshine. Granted you have your own light that will brighten up seattle. you will be back

Hope we get some hang time in before August. Moving is essential. I support it. I took a chance and left a small hell hole town called Belton for bigger and greener pastures in Dallas. It changed my life completely. It definitely will strengthen the character.

[fineline179]

you probably have the discipline, intelligence, and lack of loss of innocence to change the world to your liking. but unless you already know how to do that; unless you can honestly say your life is perfect and you are certain nothing could be better, then change is necessary, no?

I mean seattle. There is coffee there. There is yearly MASSIVE electonic music festival there (which I'll probably be going to regularily pretty soon). There is this french party shop west of the university with the phattiest cremed stuffed things I have ever eaten. There are lots more fat people there so you won't take as much damage when you ram into them on the street when you mind is in the clouds. There is no bullshit top 10% law. There are fucking MOUNTAINS to climb.

Just do your job and show the academic kids that part of being a badass is being a badass at more than just science.

[double00range]

It was awesome to get to hang with you for a couple of days. I'm glad that you got to see at least one really nice spring day while you were here so that you can fend off all the people that will tell you that Seattle has no sunshine.

The sun shines here.

It is bright and warm.

You and I share the same fear. I was able to overcome my fear here and so will you. That wonderful community in Austin is just a plane ride away, and we're all connected online. You will not lose the connections that you want to keep, and you will make tons of new ones.

I'm looking forward to getting to know you.

[demon_monk]

Wow dude. We really need to sit down and chat sometime =) It's so funny how you can see someone and be around them now and then for several months and still not know a damn thing about them.

In some ways I'd say that I'm on a similar journey, having been recently thrust out of a very close extended family and into a vastly unknown world, and in so doing discovering more about my self and my soul then I'd experienced in over a decade of study over the very same subjects. Throwing yourself to life's mercy can be frightening and exhilerating, like jumping off a bridge with a bungee on your leg; you tell yourself you're mad for even considering throwing yourself off a bridge, and then it happens and you're experiencing this fantastic realization of being alive, so much so that nothing else matters in that precise moment except life / love / bliss itself.

I envy you nothing and everything in the adventures you will have, and take great solace knowing another traveler on the same path to self-discovery =) You have my support and respect.