Chapter 1

  This blog is the result of about a million failed ideas. It actually started off as a television script, then it became a book about my interesting childhood, youtube was also a thing. So here I am on idea #385, but my favorite one so far. 
  Like many creatives, I'm a perfectionist. In the midst of Idealistic media mayhem, its social suicide to post content that isn't perfect. I doubted myself constantly and trashed so many ideas to the point where I just gave up. I blamed the times,my generation, social media, you name it I blamed it for killing creativity. Little did I know my anguish was just avoidance from real issue, I didn't accept my reality. 
    Moving out of Brooklyn, New York to Los Angeles, California was a huge culture shock. The city of Angels was heaven on earth. I'm talking overnight gym bodies, Instagram worthy cafes, and elite social groups (that actually despise each other). I met so many dope influencers living large on Instagram (also struggling to pay their rent with six roommates but we don't talk about that). Theres also a ton of young thriving entrepreneurs who are killing it! Making big bucks and celebrating on the weekends by getting tables for them and their freeloader friends. They're surrounded by a bunch of beautiful women, none of which they actually care about but who cares? Who needs a relationship? Who even needs real friends? The only necessary connections are those with a dollar sign attached to them. But thats cool, they have their dogs. When I discovered the unfiltered truth of this city allowed me to revaluate my fight for perfection. 
   My life isn't perfect, I'm not perfect, and I have no desire to be. I indulge in the gym maybe twice a week and I also indulge in one too many happy hour specials. I can appear to be standoffish sometimes but the truth is, I'm actually an awkward dork who snorts at her own jokes. This is not even 5% of the whole story. This blog is to reveal the rest and the real. Mark Twain said it best, "write what you know." What I know is 21 years of pain, joy, and failure. The stories I tell aren't special, people have similar experiences in different settings everyday but that's the point. 21 Tales Later is for the mundane folk who are just trying to figure out this game of life. It's a dose of inspiration for those who think their stories aren't important or relatable in a world that can make one feel so small. At the end of the day, the celebrities, the influencers, the politicians couldn't make anything happen if it wasn't for us. We inspire them to create more just by living our real life tales. This is where we begin to fall in love with our reality....... (let's see how long this one last)