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Here & There


What's difference between here and there?

Here: It feels like I'm caged in, stuck, no opportunity, dead.

There: Alive, character; the people have character, the streets, shops, it has a showy personality.

 

How do you feel?

Here: When I'm here I never felt happy...it feels like I'm trying to find a way out, but at the end...what's the use. I don't feel the need to step out of my room, I honestly stay in my room and listen to music and wonder what it's like to be...There.

There: I feel inspired, I feel full of excitment there it is busy, open, I feel free. I want to go out and take it all in everyday and never waste a moment There.

 

And how do you feel now that you live There?

Happy, finally happy, I can go out and there is craziness, opportunies, action, inspiration all around me. I feel like I am fianlly living MY Dream.

 

What made you unhappy when you lived Here?

That no one believed me...I always felt like I'm pretty much on my own. I ask them what I want in life...but they can only say " What if it doesn't happen?" They NEVER asked, "What if it does happen?"

What were the moments where they didn't believe?

People saying, "You won't get discovered!" Or they ask what do you want to be, I simply say what I want but they reply..."Be serious, that is not going to happen."

 

Did you like anything about living Here?

Yeah, I was happy, I have an amazing family, great friends and God loves me, but something was breaking, dying inside of me..something missing. I felt like I could be more and do more somewhere else... not Here..definitely not Here.

How did you feel when people didn't believe in you?

I feel like glass breaking inside of me, a painful heart break..probably worse than being turned down by a boy, ha. I always felt like giving up, but if I did then I wouldn't have anything to look foward to in the future..so I can't give up.

 

Yes, I had doubts of what I want.

Yes, I wanted to give up, but I believed for too long to turn down what I want in life.

If I give up what else is there?

I want the rest of my life to be exciting and happy as much as possible.

Yes, there will be times that I want to crawl in bed and cry.

There will be times that I feel like the happiest person on earth. Now to start my journey is to leave 'Here' and go 'There.'

 

 

 

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