Chapter Eight: Time For The Next Level

Everything I Thought is exactly what it sounds like. Nothing permanently true, but all lived honestly.

These are the thoughts, perceptions, and stories of someone, just like you, trying to figure out love, family, ambition, and what it means to build a life worth writing about.

It started at 23 with a pen and a blank page and no plan beyond telling the truth. There is still no end in sight. That's the thing about a story worth writing: it doesn't have to end after one book. It doesn't have to end after a heartbreak, a failure, or a version of yourself you've outgrown. Every lesson becomes a new chapter. Every chapter becomes a new beginning.

These books are not a finished philosophy. They are a life, written in real time, thoughts that were true when I put them down, from someone who knows he will keep changing. Writing by hand, watching the words arrive in the same order you get to read them, makes the whole thing feel exactly as personal as it is.

This is everything I thought. And everything I have yet to learn.

It might not all be right. But from the first page to the last, I promise you, it is all the truth.

- NEB