If all you’ve got is a going-away, you might end up lost, since the only thing on your mind is running. And if all you’ve got is a going-to, you might end up sad because what you find is rarely as good as you thought it would be, unless it’s different from what you imagined, so it helps to remember how awful the thing was that you left. It’s a simple equation, really, and the stranger the journey the better the math works. Just plug in what you were trying to get to and multiply it by what you were trying to get away from, and you’ll understand a hell of a lot more precisely why you did what
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