I was re-reading my earlier posts and saw that at the end of the last one I was contemplating the conclusion of my last few weeks at school and what it was in store for me. Now, x-amounts of months later, I am writing on a laptop in my beloved Plaza dorms. Yes, I am back in Salt Lake City for summer session and, to the contrary, I am rather pleased. Being back home was a bit difficult and while I was there, I discovered that my life in Salt Lake City is my own. This is my own life in which I can act upon my prerogatives. I can cultivate the life that I have always wanted to lead and my only obstacle is myself. Just as such-and-such president of this checkered nation proclaimed, a persons true obstacle to obtaining anything they want in their lives is themselves; our self-set parameters are our biggest enemies. The irony that the person who wants the most out of their own life is stopped and convinced by themselves to expect the worst.
I have heard that Salt Lake City is a pretty cool place to be during the summer. The hipsters emerge from their flannel caverns and beckon amazing bands to come play for them...for free. Starting this July I will begin a musical journey, a musical epic, that begins with Modest Mouse and includes Beirut, Matisyahu, and Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings, ending effortlessly with She & Him, all for free. I am dying! I can't believe that they will all be here, so close, and so....free! I remember getting upset while I was back in New York because I saw that I missed Modest Mouse down at Terminal Five or around there but was immediately quelled when I checked the Twilight Concert Series line-up. Absolutely beautiful. There are some other hip things going on throughout and around Salt Lake City, some festivals, the occasional art exhibit, and farmers markets where college students are taunted by the succulent fresh fruit yet turned off by the responsibility of having said succulent fruit slowly disintegrate in mini-fridges. It is no longer what can we not afford to do but it is now what can we do. period? Luckily, I got a job and have been very happy with it. I plan to work my hardest and am genuinely looking forward to financing my prospective travels for the next two years. Hawaii is luring me in quickly and surely, as well as Spain. Both are amazing places filled to the brim with history and unique cultures that a girl from Larchmont cannot help but to be tantalized by the idea of experiencing other areas from the world that are so vastly different from, well, Larchmont.
A man once said, "Do not tell me what a man has done but tell me where he has travelled." and I agree. Do not tell me what you want to be, instead, tell me what you have seen that has made you into the person you have decided to become.
