so the title of this video is why I left America to live in Morocco this is a big question but
basically I found Morocco by googling best places to learn to surf in the world and it was fourth
on that list behind Byron Bay Australia which I lived working in a hostel kuta bali i'd spent a
couple weeks there after Australia New Quay as I used to call it in the UK and that sounded cold
and Morocco was fourth on that list and it sounded warm and from what I read the cost of living was
low the spices were nice there's a lot of hashish so and a lot of things going for it it took me
some time to get here but I was working a job in which I was serving others it was good but I felt
I was underperforming with my life you know I felt like I could do more I felt like I needed this
excitement this this draw you know so it took some time to get there but eventually I left America to
live in Morocco for adventure to do what I love to get out of the cold the cold Chicago winter
it starts as early as October and goes as late as April I've made that mistake of going home
in March I can Oh it'll be spring time nope still snowing so in the end I went to Morocco in pursuit
of the American dream happiness freedom things like this an escape from all the daily [ __ ] all
the fake news all the you know how it goes there's a lot of things going on that if we turn off the
news we can live in our own reality in which none of that [ __ ] is there so I guess I left America
it's live in Morocco to say [ __ ] the [ __ ] it seems to be the key word here why I left America
[ __ ] when my turn in Morocco doing the things I love almost every day I've been working a lot
now so I'm not as surfing as much as I once was here I was going every day now work has kind of
become a priority as I have some expenses coming up and I took a couple months off this year as
well basically I left America to live in Morocco in pursuit of that American dream to make a living
I guess the American Dream doesn't always involve making a living doing what you love the American
Dream is almost just making money by any means necessary it is about growth it is about being
independent and these are all great things but if we just chase the money you're gonna wind up not
happy so do what you love find a way to make that happen and don't be afraid to quit that job to
break up with that significant other to leave your apartment to sell all your things to buy a one-way
ticket to take a chance to walk up to that edge of the cliff and jump off and as Terence Mckenna
said nature rewards courage so you may find that there's a bed of feathers at the bottom of that
cliff or like Indiana Jones he takes that leap of faith when he's going for the Holy Grail and like
that the stones appear and he's able to walk to the Holy Grail may you find your Holy Grail
may you overcome all your fears and may you find your Morocco whatever that may be to you thank you
for listening and I'll see you next time we're gonna take this video just a little bit longer