Positive thinking...

So, I'm in LA and have been updating my other blog instead of this one. But this is a post I feel belongs more on this one.

I'm really liking LA. And what I'm doing here. It's crazy to think I'm actually here, but at the same time, feels like there's nowhere else I should be right now. I think the weirdest thing for me isn't how I feel about being here, but how other people are reacting to me being here. I really don't think it's that big of a deal, just the logical step of what I need to do to do what I want in life.

Yesterday, after talking to a guy I know, he said that he was proud of what I was doing and I was inspiring him to follow his dreams and what he really wants to do in life. In kind of shocked me because I wasn't thinking of how what I'm doing could be affecting other people. The only reaction I was able to detect so far was more people pissed off I was doing this which was weird and I just completely ignored. I mean, I don't know, it kind of shocks me that people seem to just settle. I've never really second guessed what I wanted out of life, I've always known. When people gave me shit for being a communication major, I never cared. A worthless major... yeah, try to do what I'm doing now without it. I always knew I'd get to LA. How, haha, I never really knew. But I have never thought I would just settle to live in Washington.

I feel everyone really knows what they want to do in life and what they want to get out of what they're doing. It becomes more of a do people really have the courage inside themselves to do it. I truly believe everyone can do anything they want, I just think most people get scared and stick with what's easy and they know they can succeed at. I mean, before I came down here I was thinking how it'd be so much easier to just stay in Pullman all summer, working and actually making money because I knew it. But then I realized how stupid that thought was, of course doing something new isn't easy. But eventually it gets there.

And it doesn't matter what other people think about what you're doing, as long as you're happy. I don't know, talking to people recently and how they've reacted to what I'm doing, it seems a lot of people aren't doing what they truly want in life. Instead they just settled for things that they knew they could do well at.

So I guess the point of all of that is, everyone should truly go after what they want in life. If you believe in yourself you really can do anything.

With that said, can't always be positive. My car is just one example of negative thinking for me right now. We got an expensive tune up before driving it down here. The check engine light came on halfway down the drive here. Then it went off. Then two days ago, the car just died after idling. It turned right back on. Then, it happened again not even twenty minutes later, on probably the busiest road in LA leading to the highway that everyone takes to go to the Valley, it died again. Started up again but still. The drivers here are complete and totals assholes. I don't even know what would've happened if it wouldn't of turned back on. I need to stop thinking negative thoughts though and just tell myself the car is fine and will run completely fine and I'll be able to drive it back up when the internship is over.

Here's a video for the secret that's kind of inspiring. It's totally cheesy, especially the end. But, if you're in need of a little inspiration, it could help.