My Brother’s Wedding Invitation Was a Rejection. So I Booked a One-Way Ticket and Chose Myself.

in a kind of trance. Southeast Asia. Australia. South America. Places that had always existed in the “someday” category of my life.

But why not now? What was really keeping me here?

At two in the morning, operating on a combination of heartbreak, anger, and reckless determination, I purchased a one-way ticket to Bangkok, Thailand. The cost made me wince—I’d continue reading …