Whoa, 12 days since I last blogged? Whaaaat.
I could blog about a lot of things right now. I flew 3,000 miles away from everything that was comfortable to me last weekend, fell in love with beautiful LA (note: that may become my permanent home...at least in my 20s...), and learned that life is just not as serious as I've been making it out to be all these years.
So, I will blog based on a combination of Los Angeles (aka debauchery at its finest) and a quote I saw on Tumblr yesterday:
"Inside all of us there is a wild thing."
This blog is about a pretty serious entity--love. But, on the road to finding our soulmate, there are a lot of stops, bumps, road blocks, and adventures. When I think about my spring break trip to NOLA, half of the stories and memories we made came from stopping at thee sketchiest rest stops and, at times, being afraid for our lives in the midst of gas stations with deer heads, southern drawls, and plaid shirts. No joke.
Eventually, we made it to NOLA. But, the memories we made on the way there and on the way back are some of the ones that stuck with me the most. We could've been 9 strangers sitting in a car only focused on getting to the Big Easy, never talking and only stopping when someone had to pee like a race horse. Instead, we talked, we stopped even when it wasn't really necessary, and we crafted our own story.
The road to love or whatever you want your end result to be is pretty much the same way. You can only focus on getting something serious and ignore any possible detours. But, as someone who once felt the way, I will tell you that's not very fun. To borrow from another quote (so full of quotes today), life is about the people you meet and the memories you create with them. So start creating.
Do dumb things (just remember to wrap it up, kids.). Kiss people whose last names you don't know. Make a complete fool of yourself. Because, this is your life and it's your story to write and I don't want to read anything that has a great last chapter and 30 boring chapters preceding it.
Love freely,
tY
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