Be the cowboy. It's a hell of a phrase. The cowboy is the archetypal figure of the American mythos: the self-determining young traveler, wandering the expanse of the frontier, beholden to no one. Even if you've never watched a Western, the appeal of the cowboy is probably somewhere baked into your soul. If you're American -- if you've ever really thought about America -- it's in there. It's never leaving. In the movies, and in the attending myths, the cowboy breezes into town, gets into adventures, meets a girl, and then rides off into the sunset. The challenge, then, is to not be the girl of the story, pining for that romantic figure who will never return. The challenge is to be the cowboy, always wandering, never settling.