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One Choice Away From Everything Changing

Jedidiah Jenkins | 20:57

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membership. Carl sat on his couch looking back and forth between his phone and the ceiling

trying to figure out whether he was about to move 10,000 miles away to Australia, leaving his

home girlfriend, family, friends job and whole life behind or not. The opportunity to move at

suddenly come up when his best friend Novak decided he would be moving to Australia with his

girlfriend.


And he's 27 Novak was facing a sort of quarterlife crisis and wanting to try and start something

new and venture out into the world. While he still felt new himself. Moving to Australia had been

both Novak and crows dream ever since they were children and their families vacation there.

They both felt a weird natural connection with the colors, architecture, people and feeling of the

country. They visited again several times after throughout their teens and early 20s. On one of

their trips when they were 15, Carl and Novak agreed that they would move there when they

were older that and they would start a business together.


This would remain their dream ever since. As they grew older, though, like most dreams, it

began to take a backseat to reality. Carl went to college for accounting in his hometown of

Boston and got a job through a professor right after school that he couldn't turn down. Novak

had a family member in a tech startup company in Boston, and as a result, he was given an

opportunity to work for the company. However, after four years of Novak working for the

company, it was suddenly acquired and he was out of a job.


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