Brandon Rosica

Frozen Realizations

It was a Sunday night, mid-January in the backcountry of Jackson Wyoming, and Emmet Faith was folding his tattered dirty laundry and preparing to tuck his belongings into the cupboards of his new house. Emmet sat there in his 1984 Dodge B-Series van parked on the side of a back road, which he recently spent three-quarters of his life savings on to convert into his first mobile space he called “home”. Emmet had traveled from Pennsylvania to Montana the week after his conversion van was completed. The life that Emmet dreamed of was not very concise or defined yet, but he knew he did not want to obey the norms of society and end up wasting his life away. Emmet had a strong passion for being outside, and he was determined to break free of the college path being pressured upon him. Emmet wanted to find himself and determine what his place was in the world that was approaching him so quickly.