Cutting The Cord

So for a long time, I called San Luis Obispo my home. I lived there for 10 years while I was in school and after, and I really do love it, even today. It’s got beautiful weather, the ocean, culture, a great downtown, and the best BBQ in the world. And I was totally part of the community there. I was a business owner with friends all over town who I’d run into everyday at the store, the bars, at the Chamber of Commerce. It’s easy to get involved and make an impact when theres just a small pond of people to compete with. Shit, my bro and I even got voted as two of the Top 40 Under 40 for young up-and-comers within a three county radius that included Venture and Santa Barbara. In short, SLO is a great place to live and for some time, a few yeas ago, I thought I would be there forever. When I set up DubCorp I set it up with the corporate HQ in SLO. It just seemed wrong to build my business anywhere else, so deep were the ties to the people and places I left behind. My Skype number begins with 805, for no other reason than that was the area code in SLO. I guess I always thought I would go back someday and build a life there after Europe.

But after traveling for almost a year, I know now that it will never happen and today I made if official. I severed my last tie to SLO.

Yup, I cancelled my PO Box there. DubCorp is now officially HQ’d in Concord California, which is closer to where my pops lives. It makes it easier for him to check my mail and tell me about all the mean letters I get for forgetting to renew my Costco membership and shit like that.

So no more SLO for me. I’m sure this seems like a stupid thing to write about, but for me it’s just a little sad to realize that people and places that have meant so much to us can just pass out of our lives forever. It doesn’t seem right. I mean, how profound and heartbreaking must it be for someone to meet an old friend after say, 15 or 20 years, and to see the lines in their face and realize that they have lived their whole life, and although you were once close, you simply weren’t there to share it with them and that you can hardly even pretend to know them at all anymore. In many ways, it the saddest shit in the world.

And I guess that’s how I see SLO right now. I will probably never step foot in that town again. I’ve known this for a while, but for some reason this stupid PO box thing made me think about it all day today. But I guess that’s the price of moving forward in this world and doing the things which truly make you happy. I guess that’s why they say you have to brave to be happy and why most people never are.

So so long SLO…it was good while it lasted.