She looks around her room at all the boxes that hold the
contents of her life and at the things that wouldn’t fit and with a small sigh
she turns on her Ed Sheeran playlist and lays her head on her pillow knowing
she won’t be able to sleep because tomorrow she embarks on a new adventure.
I’ve always been a planner. I’ve had my whole future laid
out for as long as I could remember, graduate college, move to LA, become a
wedding planner, meet the man of my
dreams, have three adorable children, live happily ever after. But then I grew
up and my dreams and aspirations started to change. I didn’t want to settle and
college was settling. I wasn’t happy and it showed and I HATED that. I am not
one to dwell on bad situations or misfortunes, I create my own happiness. So
four months ago I decided to take the biggest leap of faith I’ll probably ever
attempt, drop out of college and move to LA. So, with the help of my parents
and grandma, I enrolled myself into the Make Up Designory school, found a small
but equally fabulous apartment that I will share with three incredible girls
that I am so excited to get to know and follow my true passion, follow
happiness. Will it work out? Hopefully. Is it going to be a fix to all my
problems? Absolutely not. But life, I’ve learned, is made up of the risks you
take and the ones that you don’t. The ones that lead you to your future and the
ones that break your heart. And you know there’s that saying about lemons and
what not so I guess that’s what I am doing too.
I keep getting asked “LA is a big city, are you nervous?”
and I keep answering no because I guess I’m more nervous about what will happen
to me or who I will become if I don’t go. Ever since I decided to move I have
become so inspired. Inspired to work hard, to start a blog, to become a better
person, to conquer my fears, to chase after as many dreams as possible. So off
to the city of [hopefully un]broken dreams I go. And it’s going to be exciting
and scary and mesmerizing and I’m going to have bad days and I’m going to have
days that take my breath away and I’m ready for all of it.
She shoves the last box into her car, kisses her daddy on
the cheek, hugs her momma and before putting the car in drive she turns on La
La Land by Demi Lovato. With a huge
smile and a small prayer, she starts onto her next journey.
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