ties everything together. As you begin to see the patterns,
don’t move too quickly. Just take one step at a time, trusting
that opportunities will open at the right time.
The Worst Mistake You
Can Make
My freshman year of college, I had a crush on a girl named
Lane. With curly hair and a sweet smile, Lane was cute. She
was also two years older than me. Since I had just broken up
with my girlfriend, I was eager to get back in the game of
dating, and Lane seemed to be the perfect girl.
When I told my friends I was going to ask her out, they
asked how I was going to do it.
“I thought I’d just call her,” I said.
“What?!” my friend Doug exclaimed. He was always the
romantic. “Jeff, are you kidding me? You’ve got to sweep
this girl off her feet. Go big or go home, man.”
So I did what any college male with a guitar in the
corner of his dorm room would do: I wrote Lane a song. At
ninety seconds of pure lyrical delight, it was the essence of
romance and took me only a few days to write.
One Saturday afternoon, I picked up the phone and
called Lane’s number. Three rings, and then a click.
“Hello?” a voice answered. It was her.