even crazier to stay...

Awhile back, I used to work the 5am - 9am shift at a local gym.  Like I have said before, you meet all kinds of people at the gym at 5am. 

Right around 8/9 am, the older crowd will roll in for the Silver Sneaker classes...Coffee consumption went up, the music slowed down, and the conversations got interesting.

One day out of nowhere, a frequent member that everyone loved, told us that he was leaving the gym.  The man was around 68 years old, retired, and lived by himself.  Everyone was stunned. 

"Where are you going and why?" asked the gang.


He told the coffee crew that through his "connections" (underground ties if you know what I mean) , he found an old friend he worked with many years ago.  He couldn't date her because he was married at the time.  He had not spoken to her in approximately 15 years.   And since his wife died 4 years ago, he was gonna visit her and give it a shot. 

If it worked out, he would sell his house, his cars, and everything in Pittsburgh and move down south with her. Everyone thought he was crazy.   Everyone.
I remember him saying "It would be crazy for me NOT to find out."


2 weeks later he came back to the gym to say his goodbyes.  He told us that he visited her in South Carolina and hit it off with her again. The only problem is that now she is married. But, in their week together, she agreed to divorce her current husband and get together with him.  ONE WEEK!

This man decided to put everything on the line just to find out.  The woman he was going to see was doing the same. Everything.

Before he left, I told him that his story was one of the most craziest things I have ever heard.

His reply was "It would be even crazier of me to stay."


I heard through the grapevine that the two eventually got married.
I guess he was right.

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This story always makes me think of the early, early days of GoNextWorld.  Everyone, and I mean everyone thought we were crazy to put it all on the line, give it all up and leaving our jobs to pursue something that is not etched in stone.

I guess the way we felt is similar to the man in the story...
"It would be even crazier to stay."