The Last Time I Made a New Year's Resolution

The first thing she wanted to do was get some crack… December 29, 2020 [UNSUBSCRIBE]( | [WEBSITE]( [Altucher Confidential] [Warning] Do you enjoy receiving Altucher Confidential? Please [Click Here Now]( so we know to continue sending you Altucher Confidential for free! “The first thing she wanted to do was get some crack...” [library image] The Last Time I Made a New Year's Resolution By James Altucher I programmed a stock market algorithm… the results with my research are shocking! Check out some of these notes I’ve received: - “I got in at $0.75 and out at $1.15 for a 53.3% gain all in 7 minutes! I’m a happy camper with this one! “ – Michael O. - “Yay! That profit was quick, in and out. Gotta love it. Let’s go again.” – John L. [Click here to see how to get in on this same opportunity before it comes down!]( New Year’s Eve 1994, I was completely lost. I was about to be fired. My girlfriend had broken up with me. I couldn't get out of bed in the morning without pretending to be a human. I was 26 and I felt like I was faking being a real person who could smile and talk and connect. My job (HBO) was close to firing me because I hadn’t done anything there yet, and I owed some $70,000 for my education. I thought every day I would die and I was kind of OK with it. I was playing chess at the Village Chess Shop on Thompson St. New Year’s Eve. A girl who I thought was very pretty came in and sat to watch my game. She drew my picture on a napkin. “Five dollars,” she said to me, “and I’ll sell you this picture.” I gave her the $5 simply because nobody had ever drawn a picture of me before. She signed it Elena Van Gogh. “I’m descended from Vincent Van Gogh,” she said, and then she left. The guy I was playing chess with laughed. “That girl is crazy!” he said. Nine years later I ran into him on the street on the other side of town. “We played chess on New Year’s Eve, 1994.” “How the hell do you remember that?” he said, “I can’t even remember what I had for breakfast this morning.” I remember. Bacon. Later that night, New Year’s Eve, 1994, I was walking toward the Lower East Side. Elias, my roommate (and I mean ROOMmate — the place was about 8x8) had a “friend” over. I couldn’t go home for awhile. So I was just walking. I saw Elena crossing the street. “Hey,” I said. “HEY!” She was excited. “Lets hang out!” I had nothing else to do. That was my New Year’s resolution. To do things different. Every day. Do different. DO. DIFFERENT. I thought maybe 1995 would be THE YEAR. The year for what? The year of magic! Say yes to life! The first thing she wanted to do was get some crack. I don’t smoke, drink, do anything. “Do you have $10?” she said. So we went to a donut shop on 14th and Second Avenue. I waited in the cab while she went in. The cab driver turned around to take a closer look at me. “Just don’t f*** her,” he said. She ran out and slammed the car door. "GO ASSHOLE!" she yelled at the cab driver. We were driving toward the Soho Motel, as far east on Grand Avenue that you can possibly go. On the FDR drive she yelled, “That guy just looked at me.” She crouched low into the back seat. She pointed to the car next to us. “Those guys are killers.” We got to the motel and I checked us in. $70,000 in college debt but I could get into hotels. That’s why America is great. We get up to the room. DO. DIFFERENT. 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I didn't know all the rules. I wanted to learn. Other people in the hallway were mumbling and looking at me. This sucks, I thought. I saw a staircase. Went downstairs and walked out of the building. I took a cab back to where I lived. Elias was there by himself. When I told him what had happened he sniffed my breath. Like maybe he thought I had crack breath or something. Now he’s a fisherman in Rhode Island. God, thank god I survived being younger. The next day. New Year’s Day, 1995. It was so cold. In Port Authority at 7 a.m., old men were lying randomly on the floor like they were bullets that missed the target at a firing range. I took the bus to New Jersey and my dad picked me up at the stop. He shook my hand like we were in business together and had just concluded a very successful deal. "Hello," he said. He was always so awkward. Like I am now. "Hello." I had dinner with my parents. “This next year is going to be a great year for you,” my mom said to me. And she was right. [Note about the photo: 1994, NYC, Times Square, in between the porn shops and Disneyfication. All the shops had closed but Disney (I think) put haikus on all the awnings before they razed Times Square to the ground.] Sincerely, [James Altucher] James Altucher Urgent Warning: America’s Death Spiral [planning at table image]( we needed to trigger an epic financial meltdown was a pin to pop this massive debt bubble. Well, we just got it with the Coronavirus pandemic… And that historic event sent us into the first stage of America’s death spiral… Make no mistake. What’s to follow is much, much worse. [Click here now for full details and to learn how to prepare.]( Subsribe To My Podcast [The James Altucher Show]( [The James Altucher Website]( [Subscribe Via Text]( [Subscribe With YouTube]( [Subscribe On Messenger]( [Subscribe With iTunes]( [Connected on LinkedIn]( Add AltucherConfidential@email.threefounderspublishing.com to your address book: [Whitelist Us]( Join the conversation! 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