yet, it's what keeps people in cities. the hope of wanting more, the opportunities available, and the proof around you that people have achieved this. i had heard once that silicon valley was strategically chosen for similar reasons, it was beautiful, close to stamford, young energy is around and there's this hunger to live in the million dollar homes around you and have that lifestyle. yet the youth do not yet have the money to afford it so they work tirelessly in the hopes of achieving it. people who wanted to be married and settled moved to the outskirts and suburbs, but in doing so they left behind some of that drive for more and harnessed that to their new families. it's easy to be discouraged after sometime and actually finally attain the house with a picket fence hours away in a small town. to stay in cities, there's this possibility you may become jaded, stay poor, never actually make it, and have a feeling that the last ten years of your life were a waste.
but inside there's this glimmer of hope.
somewhere,
someway,
someday
it could be you.
and sometimes that's all we need.
celebrities are immortalized, and many times unnecessarily for talent they may not actually have. but they are representations of our aspirations. people who have been given the chance and succeeded. once famous they are given the opportunity to cross all genres simultaneously writing, acting, producing, clothing lines, non-profits, international travels, multiple homes, investors, musicians, artists, poets, activists, restauranters, critics. it's perceived they are granted with the midas touch.
if it happened to them it could happen to you.
and sometimes that's all we need
to stay
"Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today."-James Dean
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