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A note from 2008: When I was cleaning up my room a week or so ago, I happened across a ton of old papers and things that I had written. Amidst them was this letter that I had written in August of 2001. I wrote this while on a REEL retreat with the LEAD scholars program, and it was in a sealed envelope that was marked not to open till December 25, 2002–at a time where I would have completed my first year and had one semester left in the LEAD program.
When I opened this letter up for the first time in a long time on August 5th, 2008, I smiled, and I thought that this would be appropriate to share with my family and friends here. I was just entering into a new adventure in my life and I was about to start college and classes in a day or two.
And now, as I get ready to head out in a 26′ moving truck, I think its only fitting to share this letter in its unedited entirety as I hit the road ready to start a new adventure in my life with my wife as she starts law school in only a few days time…
16 August 2001Hey You! With the Weird Hair!
Listen man, don’t get a haircut. You’ve had your fun and you gotta know whats real too. There’s always dreams and aspirations, but heres a few for dat good ol’ city to make a utopic paradise: everyone has a purpose, so letthem live in it; shower others with the same love and respect that YOU want to get it back; remember that there’s idiosity in everything, let it live the way it should; everything is all zen bullshit, life is like that; and you just live.
If you want a perfect society… you can’t have it! BUT you need to TRY. Let everything just flow out and the rest will follow.
Keep it all up and keep it all real. NEVER FORGET WHO YOU ARE, AND WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO!
Peace, Love, and Music,
Adam J. Cohen
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