Ever take stock for a moment in the middle of your day and ask yourself what you’re doing? No… not in the larger than life, what’s your purpose and so on (although that too) but more like what you’re doing in the job you’re in and why you’re in the position you’re in? Is this where you’ve always wanted to be? Is this who you saw yourself becoming? Are you happy with the person that you are? These are the questions I ask myself when trying to decide what I would subject myself to do for the rest of my life. After watching most of my friends sacrifice their dreams for a cushy career, only to hate themselves for giving up their vision on the off chance they wouldn’t be successful, I decided to take a different path.
I chose to run with my dreams – actually, now that I come to think about it – that may not necessarily be true. I’ve always done whatever it is I wanted to; but in the case of my career it was to become a writer. The creator for scripted television and movies that I would be proud to call my own. For those of you out there with bright, shiny eyes filled with dreams about coming out to the studios and making it… Let me make one thing clear to you right now: time may fly like a New York minute, but your career trudges like an LA second. What is an LA second, you ask? It’s your roommate letting you into the house when you forget your key accidentally and they say they’re going to be ‘just a second’. It’s calling your girlfriend downstairs and she says ‘just a second!’ It’s your mother running into her friend at the store and her saying she’ll be ‘just a second’. No tf you won’t! That’s making it in Hollywood. Unless you’re somebody who knows somebody, or you’ve been… No, unless you know somebody who knows somebody, making it does not come easy. Funnily enough, that’s the case for a lot of things in life. Still, if you were born to fulfill our purpose, would you let any obstacle get in the way?
Don’t get me wrong, there are times… So many times it become so easy to succumb, put one’s hands up and say that’s it I can’t do this anymore! But the only difference between a tough road and a dead end is how hard you’re willing to pave a way. Of all the things I could’ve chosen to do, I chose a life that’s filled with more lessons than successes but maybe I am a masochist and saying I’m gracious and blessed for all of it it’s time to make my L’s my inspiration. I suppose that’s why some of us choose to chase our dreams. Because we know that out of all the things we could’ve chosen to do, we could do it all… but none of them would make us happy. That’s all what anyone should strive to be at the end of the day.