Matthew McConaughey

I was just charging to get to the destination, to get to the banks of the river that I had a dream about.

And then it just humbled me.

I got so fatigued.

on night, whatever, 12, and was so sick and tired of the internal dialogue I was having with myself.

I was not enjoying my company.

That, you know, I purged.

And I remember, and stripped off identity markers that I had sort of been

hanging on to for like everything from, you know, what it means to be an American.

My dad's ring, M from McConaughey, a meltdown of my mom and dad's class rings from University of Kentucky were gold from her teeth and his class ring melted down.

You know, taking that off was really hard to go, am I casting out my father?

Now, I wasn't casting them out.

I was just removing to say, I don't have to rely on that being all of my identity.

So to pull that off, to strip down to where I was just a mammal.

That next morning, I was light.

I got present.

I remember writing something down.

I was like, all that I want is what I can see.

And what I can see is...

in front of me, that sense of not, I wasn't leaning around, looking around every corner to get there.

And as soon as that hit me, talking about mystical successes and realities and truth, as soon as that hit me, and for the first time in 12 days, I didn't care about getting there or what was around the corner, guess what was around the next damn corner?