Forever 23 Vision
A quiet space for humans to breathe again — a new way of healing, connecting, and remembering what we’ve lost.
Forever 23 Vision is the idea of a place where humans finally get to be human again. A community, a land, a sanctuary — not a program, not a treatment center, not a retreat where someone tells you how to fix yourself. Just a space to exist, rest, connect, think, learn, and remember the parts of life that the modern world has pushed out of reach. The land is the dream, but the movement behind it is bigger than the land. It’s a call back to ourselves — to the things we forgot, the things technology replaced, the things systems crushed, and the ways humans were meant to understand each other before everything got so loud and broken.
What’s Broken
Every system we rely on is cracked. Education wasn’t built for actual children — it was built for conformity. Mental health became medication and diagnosis instead of understanding. Psychiatry forgot the human. Therapy forgot the soul. Medicine forgot meaning. Politics forgot people. Everything is numbers, labels, categories, and risk management — but life doesn’t work like that. Humans aren’t clean. We don’t fit into boxes. We’re messy and emotional and intuitive and curious, and none of that fits into the systems we created. Critical thinking disappeared. Curiosity disappeared. Depth disappeared. And people are left walking around confused, numb, and alone, thinking something is wrong with them instead of realizing the entire machine is built wrong.
What Forever 23 Vision Offers
Not answers — space. Not programs — permission. Not treatment — humanity. Forever 23 is a place for people who think deeply, feel deeply, question things, or simply need somewhere they don’t have to perform. A place where no one is rushed or labeled or told what their healing should look like. A place where emotions aren’t seen as burdens. A place where you can cry, read, sleep, create, learn, breathe, or sit in silence without feeling like you’re failing life. It’s for people like me. People like Dylan. People who are wired for depth in a world that rewards surface-level living. People who don’t need fixing — they need room.
The Land
Forever 23 Land is the physical dream: cabins tucked into nature, a main lodge, a big community kitchen, a library with everything from ancient texts to modern psychology, places to sit quietly, places to create, places to talk, places to think. No schedule. No requirements. No checklists. No “healing program.” Just space. A couple weeks where you can breathe again, meet people who think differently, connect without pressure, learn without being lectured, rest without guilt. A sanctuary. A place mothers can come after losing a child. A place people can come when the world has been too much. A place you walk away from saying, “I can feel myself again.”
Why It Matters
Because the world isn’t giving people space to exist anymore. People are collapsing under expectations, labels, politics, diagnoses, and noise. We’ve lost connection, curiosity, depth, and meaning. We’re treating human beings like problems to manage instead of lives to understand. Forever 23 Vision is my way of pulling us back. It’s not a religion. It’s not a philosophy. It’s not a political stance. It’s simply a new — or really, old — way of being human together. A reminder that healing isn’t a formula. It’s a human-to-human, soul-to-soul, mind-to-mind process that can only happen in safety, quiet, and truth.
Why I’m Building This
Because I’ve lived long enough, and lost enough, to see how far we’ve drifted from what humans actually need. Because Dylan understood the way I think and believed I had something worth sharing. Because people like him — and people like me — deserve a place where they aren’t misunderstood, misdiagnosed, or dismissed. Because I want to build something that helps people the way the world failed to help me. Because I don’t want others to feel as alone, confused, or unsupported as I have felt. And because no one else is building something like this, so I will.
The Movement
Forever 23 is bigger than land. It’s a shift in how we relate to ourselves, our emotions, our communities, and each other. It’s about bringing humanity back into conversations. It’s about curiosity, connection, honesty, actual thinking, and creating a culture where being human isn’t treated like a flaw. The movement is about remembering what matters: truth, depth, compassion, curiosity, and the freedom to exist without being reduced to a number or diagnosis. This isn’t a theory. It’s a lived experience. And it’s a direction the world desperately needs.
How You Can Help
If this vision speaks to you — if you feel the same cracks in the world I feel — then you already understand why it matters. This will take time, resources, and people who believe in it. You can help by supporting the movement financially, by sharing it, by becoming part of the community, by standing with the idea that humans need space to be human again. Forever 23 Vision will grow one person at a time, and one day this land will exist — not because a system built it, but because people who understood the need made it real.