Darren Waller

find a way to, um, you know, date in a healthy way.

That's, that's slow and, um, you know, respectful of not only how I'm trying to live in my boundaries, but, um, other people's as well.

Um, definitely trying to continue to explore like my creative side, my musical side, like I've been making music for 10 years, but at the same time, I still feel like I'm just at the very beginning of what my creative journey is like.

So continuing to explore that, um,

definitely um traveling seeing more of the world like when i was retired i went to japan for my birthday i just went out there and was out there for like two weeks um and that was amazing for me um just being out more nate seeing more national parks and uh just being outside like more things like that you know um did you go to japan on your own by the way because i i don't did you go with others or did you go by yourself um this videographer that i work with he um

He has a part-time job with American Airlines, so he was able to get a $43 flight from New York to Tokyo.

So he came for...

Like four days, five days?

Yeah, but the other, the last like 10, nine, 10 days of my trip, I was there by myself.

It was amazing.

It was amazing.

And I had some guides set up to where they could take me on some tours and stuff like that.

But it was incredible to go out there and do something that I wanted to do and experience that just as me.

Not worry about when I'm going to get back and get to the next thing, but just be present to...

I don't know how often we think about this in general as a society, but we think about the life we want to live, getting there, wherever there is.

But any of those moments that you want to experience or that you've seen somebody else experience, all those experiences were had in the present moment.

And so if you don't build the muscles to be and train yourself being present in the moment...

then you're not going to allow yourself to be grateful for when those moments come.

Like, if I don't learn how to appreciate, like, my football, like, for me, an example was...

I started to fall in love with like the training and just like the small things.