“Competition makes people better by pushing them to keep up with someone else. Get over the junior high jealous friend thing and man up, don’t just cry and moan because you have to actually be good now. Actually BE good. Spark that creativity and be original and entertaining; your peers and your competition will respect you more for it, and you won’t have to cry yourself to sleep at night anymore.”One evening about a month ago, during a Facebook chat with my friend Keith as we discussed his upcoming wedding, I came to a startling realization about an upcoming anniversary.
–“Samuel Clemens,” Ramdiculous Page, March 9, 2007
“Dude,” I typed. “March 7. Ten years since they fired me. A decade.”
“Damn,” said Keith.
I leaned back and whistled as I thought about it. It didn’t seem that long ago, but so much had happened in those ten years.
“That was one of the most important events of my life, to be honest,” I wrote.
“Why’s that?” he responded.
I paused, thinking about everything that had happened before and since March 7, 2007.
