June 7, 1994 
- born in Charlotte, NC 

1997
- Moves to Mint Hill
  
1998
- hits head on fireplace 
 
2000
- starts elementary school with the neighborhood ratchets 
 
2002
- starts skateboarding thanks to Tony hawk underground 

2003
- first kiss (she kissed me, suck it nerds)

2004
- begins playing clarinet after failing the trumpet
- Begins horseback riding 

August 2005
- Switched unexpectedly to Private Christian middle school 

2006
- emergence of anxiety/behavioral health related concerns
- Acceleration of skaterat development 
- Gets an IPOD

2007
- Develops godlike RuneScape character
- Gets arrested first time for burning the back of a dollar general with the neighborhood ratchets (sounds worse than it was)

July 27, 2008
- smoked weed for the first time

August 2008
- begins high school at same Christian school 

September 17, 2008
- Gets drunk frfr for first time and nearly ruins friends birthday party

June 2009
- asked never to return to Christian school

July 2009
- Official beginning of teenage drug & party phase 

August 2009
- starts sophomore year at independence high (greatest “high” school ever)

Jan 2010
- begins first prescription ADHD amphetamine (vyvanse)

May 2010
- makes student honor roll

June 2010
- Celebrates successful completion of 1 yr getting stoned and self medicating daily 🤙🏻 
- Quits prescribed amphetamines
- Gets drivers license 

July 2010
- parents “separate”
- Gets arrested for shoplifting at Spencer‘s

August 2010
- start first ever job as lifeguard
- begins junior year with a car 🚗 
- …
- asked never to return as a lifeguard 🤦‍♂️ 

September 2010
- Asked never to return to independence high (the whole pocket knife fiasco)
- Friends begin dropping out at record rates 

October 2010
- Begins online private school
- Girlfriend cheats on me with best friend (f*ckin hoe)

November 11, 2010
- gets arrested in front yard for a roach 

November 12, 2010
- gets released from jail 
- Smokes the best blunt of all time with the weed they didn’t find

All 2011 
- pretty much the whole year was spent going to some kind of counseling or psychiatrist appointment or court appointment every couple weeks
- Pretty shitty year ngl 

June 2011
- Somehow cheated my way through Junior year online school

August 2011
- visits family for a week. (Nothing fancy about the visit, but when I came back, that’s when it started getting really dark, and all of my friends started graduating on to more hard-core drugs)

October 11, 2011
- girlfriend commits suicide 
- Skateboarding accident tears half my face 

November 2011
- prescribed Xanax
- Prescribed all kinds of other shit (and had been for some time), but just too lazy to go back and note them all

December 14, 2011
- Bamboozled into psych ward  

December 27, 2011
- Begins inpatient rehab in the mountains of Tennessee 

February 2, 2012
- Gets released and sent home. (big deal because I was supposed to be locked up for about nine months at least. )
- returns home to an partial hospital 9 to 5 rehab, which was even worse tho

Feb 2012
- trades RuneScape character login info for clean pee for drug test
- Switches into five month long intensive outpatient rehab
- Receives word that nearly all friends are now basically stung out on herion (besides the dude who gave me piss)

March 14, 2012
- finally decides to give sobriety and the secret recovery society a chance 

May 2012
- begins community college (CC)
- Gets GED and officially completes high school before all ratchet friends (suck it)

July 12, 2012
- Completes intensive outpatient (successfully)

August 2012
- Begins AA degree at CC 
- Breaks record for amount of actual AA meetings attended in a single week

Jan 2, 2013
- begins work at McDonald’s (3rd shift overnight, in the most pretentious part of town)

March 15, 2013
- Celebrates first official year sober
- gets first tattoo 😉 (best way to celebrate)

April 2013
- camps out for a pair of sneakers for the first time & Makes $60
- Gets first ever gym membership (a sketchy planet fitness)
- Gets pinned under a barbell and roasted by friends 

May 2013
- makes honor roll at CC 

July 2013
- Quits McDonald’s, begins job at Showmars
- Invests all available resources in new sneaker hustle 
- Begins chest piece tattoo

September 2013
- breaks the annual AA meeting attendance record (or so it seemed)

July 2014
- Hustling sneakers full time, quits showmars 
- Completes a full year of training 3x weekly

September 2014
- Begins first ever aesthetic cutting phase after gaining 30lb of the wrong kind of weight…

February 2015
- first encounter with “tinder strange”

April 2015
- begins sales job as “humble” sales rep

July 2015
- breaks sales center records in just about every category 
- Wins PS4

August 2015
- Gets promoted to leadership 🤷‍♂️ 
- sadly falls out of the gym for first official time

November 2015
- dad is admitted to the psy ward (same floor as your boy, just different wing)

*Que corporate montage

Dec 2015-May 2016 
- Kicks ass
- Takes names (kinda)

May 2016
- begins major adult relationship #1 with a super sweet and beautiful soul

*resume corporate montage

April 2017
- move in together (foolish, I know)

August 2017
- ends relationship as it genuinely wasn’t a good fit

September 2017
- begins tinder fuck boy phase (yep, that fast…)

*resume montage 

October 2017- June 2018
- work has turned to mostly BS corporate profit politics, not sexy at all

July 2018
- gets fired for leaving work early to go lift 🤷‍♂️ (other bs also a factor but who cares honestly)

August 2018
- gets real estate license (first try 😏)

February 2019
- sells a couple houses (suck it haters)

December 2019
- joins the Darkside and begins in-home sales (shouldn’t have been talking shit..)

January 2020
- walks into a strangers home and walks out in 2 hours with a 20k contract

February 2020
- quits the seedy sales shit because my conscious couldn’t handle it 

March 2020
- Covid pops off
- Attend last official AA meeting (which I was the speaker) (suck it)
- Pick up eight year trip on the same day

April 2020
- begins DoorDashing (consumer side)

June 2020
- DoorDashed two different pizzas from two different places in the same day as a personal best
- Goes to a strip club with a bunch of people in recovery at Myrtle Beach, at the height of the pandemic

July 2020
- Survives
- transfers to big real estate firm

*Que 2nd corporate montage, just with different scenery 

March 2021
- celebrates 9 years of absolute sobriety 

June 2021
- Mental health collapses after several years of slow degeneration
- Nearly hospitalized and unable to receive “official help”
- Tries “delta eight” for the first time unknowing that it actually can get you kind of stoned
- Forced to question my true identity as a “addict“

July 2021
- leaves secret society officially 
- Start smoking that green again
- Begins Kratom 

August - November 2021
- Have the best real estate quarter ever and sells a dozen homes…

September 2021
- Begins growing magic mushrooms

October 2021
- moms first heart attack

Dec 2021
- ticket punched by magic mushroom
- Life completely changes as well as trajectory

March 2022
- leaves the BS real estate firm 

April 2022
- Begins personal training full time at LA Fitness 

August 2022 
- Begins second full-time training job with Anytime Fitness

December 2022
- Quit LA fitness and doesn’t even receive a text back from the manager

June 2023
- Quit Anytime Fitness and doesn’t even receive a text back from the manager 
- goes independent 

August 2023
- Beginning of major adult romantic relationship #2

*Que honey moon phase montage 

July 2024
- “ Picture perfect” vacation to Portugal. (First time overseas.)

August 2024
- everything begins to fall apart in every area.

November 2024
- Somehow stumbled upon a stash of pharmaceuticals ripe for experimentation
- Begins seeking Adderall prescription  
- Gets played by the American political system once again

January 2025
- Prescribed Adderall
- (Starts to believe the trauma and medical establishment over secret philosophy)

Feb 2025
- relationship ends
- homegirl moves out and life implodes 
- Begins working at a wellness center
- Begins officially writing the Resistance Games

May 2025
- Quits the wellness center because it was one of the most toxic environments ever and doesn’t receive a text back from anyone
- Officially begins the “starving artist” phase
- Major Mom healthscare #2 

June 2025
- Hard to articulate, but this is really when family drama/ deterioration accelerated 

July 2025
- gets off adderall 
- Enters the philosophical & financial desert 
- Begins eating a ton of eggs

Sept 2025
- Major blowout with father 
- begins “man’s search for dopamine”
- Pauses coaching indefinitely to handle all the crazy shit

October 2025
- begins solitude challenge 
- Begins DoorDash (dasher side)
- Begins editing regularly (it’s a big effing deal cuz you wouldn’t be reading this otherwise)
- Discovers cinnamon graham crackers
- Passes the 1,000 egg mark

November through February 2025
- Historically, cold winter
- Furnace is a hoe each and every day
- Gets Played by door dash more times than I can count 
- Writes everyday without fail

February 2026
- major blowout with parents (can’t count how many times either but still was a major breaking point which is philosophically explained somewhere)
- Moms health dips further

March 2026
- Develops New technique for staring at walls
- Passes is the 10,000 egg mark (or so it seems)

April 2026
- Finishes TRG without actually going insane

*que cliche rocky theme training montage 

May 2026 - October 2026
- Finishes all the nitty gritty edits while working on self 

TIMELINE