The Brighter Side

Ok let me start this story by saying, I am the type of person that looks for the good in everything. When everything is going wrong, I can always, without a doubt, look at the brighter side of things and keep moving forward.

This trip to LA I am currently on feels like the odds are against it.

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I honestly don’t know what to write about. I was going to write about when all odds are against you but I really don’t believe that. Let’s just say this trip to LA has been extremely hard and overwhelming. Honestly not hard but just unfortunate things just keep happening. {right now you should hear my optimistic attitude in the background} Unfortunate things just keep happening. I’m just like damnnnn. Now come on. The forces have been against and at the same time with this trip since before it happened.

LA has just been giving bad energy, negative energy. I don’t know how someone can live happy here. I know. That is a bold statement but for real. This town has just been different, different from what I expected. Like someone who has never ever visited LA, I wanted to come for the perfect weather and the beach. I thought LA was the warmer New York, boy was I wrong. LA is nothing like New York. Let’s talk about how convenient, close together, clustered, and homey New York is. LA is none of that.

Here everything is spreaded out, far, inconvenient, and has no bodega. Come on, like not even a deli. That is too much. A town that has no delis is doing too much and can’t possibly be a homey place. {im sure there is one “deli” somewhere} But this town is so beautiful and prettyyyyyyy.

Let’s talk about the airport when Spirit Airlines charged me $99 for my carry-on. Let’s talk about renting an electric car that takes 38 mins to just charge 5%. Let’s talk about having the two back windows of your car smashed in and all your friends’ valuables that were in the car stolen. And that is not even all of it, just the tip of the iceberg.

And in all of this, you know what I choose to do? Look at the brighter side of it. What is there to do? I have two options. A. Give up, feel like all odds are against me. Or B. Feel the pain and move forward. And I chose the ladder. It can be so painful to go through constant trials and tribulations all the time. Like a never-ending wheel. It was Mariama Ba who wrote in her book So Long a Letter, “..it never rains but it pours. This is my luck: once misfortune has me in its grip, it never lets go of me again.” And sometimes that is how I feel. I feel like I am always pulling myself through some kind of challenge. It never stops but I am stronger for it. I am growing in ways that I never thought possible for me. Let me not say that but just, I am surprising myself in a good way and it feels good. After the pour, it always shines and I can attest to that.

We have to realize that hardships teach us something. There is always a lesson. It is up to us to be aware of what that lesson is. Challenges make us stronger. Sometimes bad things happen. It just is what it is. Because it happens to us, doesn’t mean that God is against us. It doesn’t mean our success is against us.

just keep pushing.

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