& 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 pr girl for harper’s bazaar, with a sick loft in NYC and a beach house in malibu, my life is pretty dang sweet.
people dm me all the time telling me how lucky i am to be going to umich and that it’s their dream school. it’s funny, but now that i’m here, i never stop to think about how, literally, a year ago i was in their shoes, checking my email hourly just to see if an acceptance letter was waiting for me. i often forget that i am living my past selve’s dream. i think we get so caught up in our lives that we 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 also living someone else’s dream. ya own a smartphone? in a fun frat? have a job you love? live with your two parents? have a dope relationship? own a cool pair of sneakers? have a unique talent? or something else you may have 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 _______________. ’
our dreams. we’re living them. or some version of them. let’s give that an amen!
