Sprayed XA buried treasure. A sloppy kiss. A chromosome. The roman numeral for a decade. The place you sign to set a contract in stone. Or how you show your lips are sealed and their secret is safe. An X can be everything, or nothing. It marks the spot we search far and wide for, or it can tell you to stay away from smoking. Yet here, the tone adds a deliberate texture to all of that If youre not sure what this piece is about yet, heres a little help: In

When they reached a waterfall at the end of the river

Keep this conviction long enough

The phrase is Latin for “remember that you are going to die

When in real life

Your glove compartment gathers stale gum and gas receipts

it looked like a dead end

Want so much money you don’t know what to do with it—except buy stuff you don’t need (but feel good anyway) like cars and purses

Listen - your surroundings won’t always make it obvious what greatness you’re capable of

And that’s great news

Whether you do it with art

Feeling like you want to LIVE

but those who embrace it end up becoming the winners of the world