When you leave to travel the world,

Promise you won't think of me.

Promise you'll just go.

Think of all that lays before you,

Think of adventure and action-movie stunts,

Think of exploration and wandering the earth's many roads.

Take those roads.

Take roads leading you up, out forward, onward, away.

Let these winds sail you away.

Fill your actions with ocean water,

Pull yourself away with the waves.

Forget what you've left behind and focus on all that befalls you in its wondrous oscillations.

Forget hometowns,

Forget strings-attached movements

and cramped hallways

and narrow paths.

Forget me

Focus on the wide road ahead of you.

It can take you anywhere.

Its possibilities are endless.

Its capabilities are countless; just like yours.

Yes, love surrounds you here

But promise me you'll leave

And find a way for the earth to love you

Promise me you won't grieve.

Throw yourself into this magic

And let everything else go.

Take on the world

Take on adventure

Take on insane action

Youthful indiscretion

Tumultuous waves

Uncertainty

Magic.

Take it.

Do not think of what you must leave behind.

Just go.