Fly to the moon.

Little bit of aging perspective for all of us out there who's feeling the years creep up on them. We get older and we start wondering if it's too late to do something with our lives... Esepcially people who's around my age, in their late 30s, and it hits you at night wondering if you've wasted your time. Well, the average age of the men who walked on the moon was 39, with the oldest being John Young at 41. These were a bunch of math nerds (and understand, they were indeed math nerds!) who flew 238,900 miles in a cramped capsule, for a two to three week voyage.

There's no goddamned reason you can't get to the moon. (The moon is a metaphor for your dreams or goals.) Maybe you don't have a lot of support on the homefront. You think those 24 people who flew the Apollo missions were totally supported by everyone? Hell, no. They had an entire half a nation of people who basically expected them to die on the way there. (And a few of them almost did.) But they stuck it out. And with a little ingenuity and duct tape (seriously, duct tape), they pulled it off.

Your moon is probably a little more obtainable than the actual moon. Maybe you want to find that right job, or maybe you want to create that right business. Perhaps you want to write or draw that new story or you want to produce that new television show. Maybe you just want to meet that right someone or maybe you want to lose that weight...

Do it. Fly to the goddamned moon.

You're going to crash a few times and perhaps you already have. Well, you pick yourself back up and fly again. You're going to have people telling you that you're wasting your time and that you should spend it doing something more productive. The moon is so far away and it doesn't really serve any purpose. So you're wasting your time, because getting to the moon does no one any good... Especially you. Sometimes these people are going to be friends and even loved ones who's opinions you respect. Sometimes they're going to be the masses who's world is so small, they quite frankly cannot imagine, something beyond text messages, tweets and whoever Taylor Swift is doing. Or worse yet, they can't imagine themselves doing it so they can't believe you can either... Well, unless you have a really powerful thrust on your engine (once again, metaphor) you might want to consider changing them or start hanging around new people. Because in aeronautics, they're what is considered drag. (As in they drag you down.) And sometimes that drag is yourself.

If you know how to get to the moon, and you may indeed know how to do it... Then do it. Because guess what? You're not going to get to Mars until you get to the cheese in the night sky. (Yes, Mars is yet, another metaphor for what comes after the moon.)

Fly. The moon's not coming to you. You gotta go to it. Otherwise, you'll have to settle for watching other people land there from your television set instead.