& so are you (well, most of you). flash back to when you were, say, 12 years old. personally, i was probably looking at myself in the mirror, wondering what i’m gonna look like if & when i move past my “ugly phase.” i would dream about the college i would attend, the friends i would make, and what i’d do for fun. & although i haven’t (yet) become the successful writer who has visited every country and has a sick house with floor to ceiling windows overlooking the beach, my life is pretty dang sweet.
people dm me all the time telling me how lucky i am to be able to travel so often. it’s funny, but now that i’m traveling as much as i’ve always dreamed i would, i never stop to think about how, literally a year ago it would have been something i considered only famous people could do. i think i get so caught up in my lives that i don’t stop and appreciate that we are exactly where we hoped to be.
you may be reading this and think that you can’t relate. that your existence, up to this point, has been just eh. yet, it’s not likely true. it’s almost a guarantee that you are living someone’s dream (maybe just not your own… yet).
own a smartphone? part of greek life? have a job you love? live with your two parents? have a dope relationship? own high fashion clothes? have a unique talent? or possibly it’s something else you overlooked in the moments that pass in life. not everyone has these things. someone really wants what you have! your ‘eh’ is someone else’s “please, please let me have/get ___”
the dream. we’re living it. or some version of it.
