“I just started weeping, because I realized that I was completely and utterly trapped. And that I would never be able to walk away from that amount of money, ever in my life. And any dream that I had of living a life with purpose and meaning, and being an adventurer, and somebody that would actually take risks and live a life that’s deliberate and intentional, those were gone. When you see your life as scripted out and you recognize that this is not anything I will - why am I doing this? This guy that is handing me his firm – I don’t even want to be him. I don’t envy his life. Maybe this was never for me to begin with. And maybe if I don’t leave right now, I’m going to be that dude for the rest of my life. And I just took the elevator down 28 stories and that was it. And ever since then, I decided that this life was going to be mine. And it was going to be wildly, flamboyantly my life. When you recognize that this life is yours, and that it is your one and only, and when that ceases to be esoteric bullshit, when that’s not hippie poetry anymore, when the pragmatism of that statement seeps directly in your bones and you recognize that this is it, everything changes.” — AJ Leon