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Ryan’s 2024 Year in Books
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Wander: A Memoir of Letting go and Walking 2,000 Miles to a Meaningful Life
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“I imagined the experience being similar to going your whole life believing you had perfect vision, then suddenly learning a new color, one that brought meaning to every other hue. How would I describe that? How would I convince former “me” of the importance? The more I thought about it, the less confident I was that I could, but the more convinced I was that I should try—not to the former me, of course, but to everyone.”
― Wander: A Memoir of Letting go and Walking 2,000 Miles to a Meaningful Life.
― Wander: A Memoir of Letting go and Walking 2,000 Miles to a Meaningful Life.
“Standing three hundred miles from Springer Mountain after hiking for three weeks, this work-in-progress version of me knew there was immense value in enduring hardship, pushing myself toward what I believed were my limits, and seeing myself burst through the other side of them.”
― Wander: A Memoir of Letting go and Walking 2,000 Miles to a Meaningful Life.
― Wander: A Memoir of Letting go and Walking 2,000 Miles to a Meaningful Life.
“Money was only a tool, a very useful one, but nothing more than that—a thing to bring value, not a value in itself.”
― Wander: A Memoir of Letting go and Walking 2,000 Miles to a Meaningful Life.
― Wander: A Memoir of Letting go and Walking 2,000 Miles to a Meaningful Life.
“One thing I have come to know is that a new path is always possible; we just need to choose it for ourselves.”
― Wander: A Memoir of Letting go and Walking 2,000 Miles to a Meaningful Life.
― Wander: A Memoir of Letting go and Walking 2,000 Miles to a Meaningful Life.
“I was blindly heading down one path, unaware, sleepwalking, stepping but not feeling the ground, looking but not really seeing.”
― Wander: A Memoir of Letting go and Walking 2,000 Miles to a Meaningful Life.
― Wander: A Memoir of Letting go and Walking 2,000 Miles to a Meaningful Life.
“I had spent the last several months trying to forge a better relationship with myself, my goals, my expectations, what I valued, and where I spent my time and energy. I hoped to use the trail as a reconditioning tool, to stop looking so far ahead and find true pleasure in the present moment. I had steeped myself in knowledge of the great masters, sayings like “To travel well is better than to arrive,” and, “The journey is the reward." I was shedding my life of destinations with only a bare tolerance for the journeys between them.”
― Wander: A Memoir of Letting go and Walking 2,000 Miles to a Meaningful Life.
― Wander: A Memoir of Letting go and Walking 2,000 Miles to a Meaningful Life.
“What had I actually left an entire life behind for? I couldn’t put those words together, not here in these first steps on the trail. I’ve come here to figure out what I came here for, I settled on and kept stepping.”
― Wander: A Memoir of Letting go and Walking 2,000 Miles to a Meaningful Life.
― Wander: A Memoir of Letting go and Walking 2,000 Miles to a Meaningful Life.
“But what happens when we follow that template only to realize everything we were told we should want isn’t actually what we do want?”
― Wander: A Memoir of Letting go and Walking 2,000 Miles to a Meaningful Life.
― Wander: A Memoir of Letting go and Walking 2,000 Miles to a Meaningful Life.
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