Start by running from everything
Run from attachment, from indebtedness, from the thousand fears of your mother
Run too from the expectations of your father and all the strictures of your church
Run from the boy who rejects you in 10th grade and the girl who rejects you in 11th
Run from the stack of notes you passed with your best friend and all the secrets you told
Run too from the habit of secret sharing, the habit of connection, the grace of friendship
End while still running
Run from the instinct to leave
Abandon the drive to separate, abandon the hope of new spaces
Run from your fear of intimacy, run from your fear of love
Run from the chorus of voices that expresses surprise

It is true that you need only yourself to survive
It is true that you are owed more than survival