Robert Cohn

Robert Cohn 

       “You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.”

    When Jake said this to me I didn't know how to react. He was right though. I was trying to convince him to go with me to South America on vacation. I just wanted to get away but deep down I wanted to feel something. My life lately has been very meaningless and unfulfilled and I wanted that to change. I thought traveling the world would fix it but instead, I just brought my problems with me everywhere I went. Trying to resolve all my personal issues through constant travel was a waste of time and money. So was the drinking. We drank all the time and I regret it. I spent an entire decade of my life drunk instead of trying to enjoy life. I later realized that all this travel and drinking and recklessness I 0was wasteful and useless and in the end I felt worse than when I started.