Yesterday afternoon, I went to check the status updates on my Facebook and saw this :

From “2 years ago today”… I was in L.A. as well, but I was living in South Bay at the time. I was going to EF school doing my Master in Media & Arts and I still remember that day very well…

I hung out with my friend Noah, we went to Redondo Beach’s Riviera Village which was right by our school, to get something for lunch. We ate at Sophie’s Place, burger and fries ! and I had leftovers that I brought back home. At night, I was watching episodes from my favorite TV series from back then, Dexter 😀

& I just remember how I kept thinking about the future, and how uncertain everything was about it… I didn’t know if I was gonna be back again, ant it felt like this great day that I spent with my friend could just be it. That after this EF year, I wouldn’t have the opportunity to live this experience anymore.

But two years have past, and I am still here.

Seeing this on my Facebook reminded me of many little things like : I haven’t spent my March months since 2013 anywhere else but L.A. This was my third March 29 here… and just like two years ago, I was with Noah that same day… just like two years ago, we went to grab lunch together, but completely unaware of the past, and got burgers and fries again ! It’s becoming like a tradition 🙂

But this time, we both moved from South Bay. I am living now where I always wanted, in The Valley of Los Angeles : that was one of my dreams and goals, to one day move up to the hills and I never thought that two years from back then I would have gotten myself here.

Life is just crazy, and I never gave up on my dreams. No matter how much time and efforts, work, sacrifices and hard it gets, I could never give up because the outcome is so much worth it.

Yesterday when I saw this update on my Facebook, I immediately shared it with my friend who was as surprised as me, realizing that even though we haven’t made anything major yet, this reminded us that back then we had no hopes of getting anywhere at all, we were both lost and we still achieved some little things since then, more than we expected.

It cheered us up, because who knows where we will be in two years from today… Maybe nowhere at all, maybe closer to our goals, maybe we will have changed our paths… I don’t know, and I’m still scared and I still feel hopeless even upon realizing that I made it “this far”, because I still feel like it isn’t enough, and that I’m too far away from everything I’d like to achieve. That requires so much work, and luck, and talent and some days I just ask myself : “do I have what it takes ? will I ever make it ? and if not, what will happen to me ?”

But yesterday, while I was with Noah, we couldn’t focus on anything but the positive of our situations. Remembering our EF school days and things that happened since then… and yeah. I’m just incredibly happy I got to keep on living these experiences and I am more motivated than ever to pursue my dreams 😀