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I took a bite into a piece of toast with peanut butter smeared on it, and all my top teeth fell out. Yes, all of them.
Breath—what a wonderful thing that we all take for granted.
For years I thought I wasn’t enough, but I don’t feel that way anymore. I think I’m just the right amount.
I have always thought that the ocean mirrors the subconscious mind. There’s beauty—coral reefs, brightly colored fish, spume, and refracted sunlight—but there’s something darker, sharks and tiger fish and endless deeps just ready to swallow rickety fishing boats.
It goes on, regardless of what we do; regardless of how hard we try, the ocean reminds us that we are powerless in comparison.
take every opportunity, because something might come of it.
Schwimmer, for making us stick together when he could have gone it alone and profited more than all the rest, and deciding we should be a team and getting us a million bucks a week. Lisa Kudrow—no woman has ever made me laugh that much. Courteney Cox, for making America think that someone so beautiful would marry a guy like me. Jenny, for letting me look at that face an extra two seconds every single day. Matt LeBlanc, who took the only sort of stock character and turned him into the funniest character on the show.
At the reunion, I was the one who cried more than anyone because I knew what I’d had, and the gratitude I felt then matches the gratitude I feel today. Beyond those principles there was all the crew, the producers, the writers, the actors, the audience members, so many faces churning into one face of joy.
I look out at the water, and I say, very quietly, “Maybe I’m not so bad after all.”
Find a friend who’ll quit something with you—you’ll be amazed what that does for a friendship.
My life has been a series of these portals, between Canada and LA, Mom and Dad, L.A.X. 2194 and Friends, between sobriety and addiction, despair and gratitude, love and losing love.
love always wins. Love and courage, man—the two most important things. I don’t move forward with fear anymore—I move forward with curiosity.
Hell has definable features, and I want no part of it. But I have the courage to face it, at least.
But in the end admitting defeat was winning. Addiction, the big terrible thing, is far too powerful for anyone to defeat alone. But together, one day at a time, we can beat it down.
Someday you, too, might be called upon to do something important, so be ready for it. And when whatever happens, just think, What would Batman do? and do that.
