Having a California Girl Summer (again)
I feel like California gets a really bad rep. In the media, in books, in movies, ect. I used to be one of those people who always thought Los Angeles was full of rude and flashy people who only cared about success.
Why did I think that caring about success was such a bad thing? To have goals, be ambitious and want to succeed is probably the opposite of a negative thing. It’s inspirational, and probably one of the best qualities in a person.
I moved to Los Angeles last summer and it completely changed my outlook on life here, as cheesy as that sounds. I was working exactly at the company I’ve always dreamed of working and was spending every minute that I wasn’t working, living and going everywhere with my best friends.
Fast forward to this summer, I got a job around 3 weeks before I had to be in LA and I knew of only 2 people living here this summer. I wondered if being alone, not around a big group of my best friends and working in a different part of PR would make me still love LA as much as I did last summer.
I’m one month in and exactly at the same place that I was last summer. There’s something so contagious here in the air, everybody just wants to be the best that they can be and learn and grow and I admire that so much. I haven’t met a rude person here yet and yeah there flashy people but there’s flashy people in any big, major city.
Why is it that we get so scared of success we label it every mean thing we could possibly think of?
Well, success is scary. It comes with having people rely on you, lots of connections and something to maintain. Successful people aren’t just stagnant in life they’re always improving, always doing something different to reach different levels of success.
LA is rooted in successful people and that’s exactly why I feel the way I do when I’m here.
The big post-grad debate of where do I move to is coming up soon and I have to say I’m so drawn to LA.
My mom always told me that everyone in my family would always tell her “Heather is going to end up in Hollywood”.
Now, living in Hollywood this summer, there’s nothing more that I want than to end up here.
I choose LA time and time again.