"California Love" by 2pac is not only the name of my 3rd and newest blog, but it's the song that played when I knew my dreams of moving to LA felt like they were really going to happen (cliché I know).
I was sitting at Louise's, a weekday hot spot for a cold draft in Lawrence, Kansas where I just graduated college. I clanked my glass of bud light (top shelf for a college student) to my roommate and friend Christina, as she had just found out she landed her dream job in NYC. It had been a month since I heard from the agency I applied to in LA, and I started to think this might not work out.
Christina went to the restroom and I sat there contemplating what I wanted to do and where I wanted to go if this LA job didn't work out. I almost talked myself into the fact that I wasn't getting it, when 2pac came onto the radio.
It's as if someone was watching me through the finger-printed bay window that looks out on Mass St. and saw that I was starting to give up. It's as if someone told them to "que a California song".
As cheesy as it sounds, at that moment I knew it was going to work out. I knew that somehow, I was going to make it out to California and I was going to be happy.
And here I am in the city of angels.
The biggest thing I want people to take away from this is that you can do what you want. You don't have to live in your home state just because you're from there and all of your family is there. You don't have to settle into a comfortable "life after college" just because that's what everyone else does. You can do what you want. You just have to do it.
In the interest of not sounding preachy, I simply want to inspire people through this new blog. I want people to feel like they can do what they want and go where they want to go. I can only hope that I've inspired at least one person to do that.
So here's to hopefully being "inspirational." Here's to living in an awesome new city. And above all, here's to you 2pac.
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