Step 1: Find a place to live, preferably one that’s cozy, a corner house, right on a bus route, close to your loved ones, make sure parking is good for when friends visit for your birthday. If you want to be thorough, check for close by schools for future kids and imagine them running through the neighborhood’s streets. Above all else, make sure it has good bones. This will be your home even after it’s dust over headstones.
Step 2: Live the life you cherished, filled with soft sunsets reflected off your dreams becoming. Water the hibiscuses, mint, and lemon tree and whisper to them your stories, until they’re etched into each petal, root, and ring. Turn the dirt to let in fresh hope with a fertilizing DAP or a pinch of Nourishment, Persistence and Knotted stories.
Step 3: When you go on university tours, the most important part to check is the grass at the Quad, will your favorite spot fit you and your friends? Laying on the grass, shoulder-to- shoulder, settling into careers grooved with urgency against the setting sun. Is the dirt filled with enough dreams that you can play back like DVDs in a long car ride to another life.
Step 4: Memorize and romanticize the routes you take everywhere. Is there space for your knees and elbows to stay sprawled. Will you be able to stay in this car, staining it with maps of everywhere you haven’t seen yet. Hole marks the spot, you can peak you will see through back to then, at the route you’ve already committed to a now riddled heart.
Step 5: Leave a little bit of yourself everywhere you go, so when you look at it through the blood red lens you might see its trail and spend eternity with re-found love left for safekeeping. Hope that where you stay last, there will be peace to be found, and when that hope can’t find you, know it will grow around you, in time, at your new home even if it
wasn’t the one you chose.
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