While there hasn't been any snow in the last week, this is what Toronto can look like in winter: bleak.
"As you go through life there will be no shortage of people who'll tell you how to live. Don't argue with them. Say 'Yes that's a brilliant, brilliant idea' but then do what you want."
~Woody Allen as David Dobel in Anything Else
Since my trip to LAX, the land that holds wonder and joy for me, I have been making the great debate. When do I move to LA?
There are so many things that have caught me from immediately making the leap. Namely my degree that I have about one year left to complete. So close, yet so far away. From a girl who has spent most of her life in school, isn't it enough already? I realize the importance of education (obviously or I wouldn't have spent all these years in post-secondary school) but I am totally fizzled out on the whole school vibe. Of course the York University strike that happened over a month ago (which is still going on and I don't know when it will end) has played a huge factor in this TO balking and LA stalking. So what decisions do I make?
I have heard from many people who have come across my path in the past month. One NoHo gym club owner says "Just do it. What have you got to lose? You are getting older every day, every second, just hurry up and move here already." Hmm, yes sage advice. And judging by the way I felt in his gym: full of life, excitement, and general joie de vivre, I would say his lead is a good one to take. A girlfriend here in Toronto reminds me that "School is always there for me whenever I am ready to finish it." Today a new friend reminds me to "Do what is right for me and follow my heart."
And I do want to follow my heart. It has been left in LA. Don't get me wrong, there are many beautiful, wonderful things and people in my life that make me want to be a bi-citizen, or as Amalita (of Sex and the City Season 1) would say a "Citizen of the world." Which of course I am really only referring to Toronto and LA. Which does sound like having your cake and eating it too, maybe that will do.
I do not know what the future holds for me just yet. As I am still weighing my options of finishing out the winter semester in Toronto (which could mean May departure or July depending on the strike) or just jumping ship and taking off to LA as soon as the cold takes me over and the grayness of the city envelopes me to the point of no return.
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that pic looks like fun actually. i love apocalyptic weather. i absolutely hate when toronto becomes that dry cold, no snow, and just grey.. boring, and no challenge.
ReplyDeletecome on, wouldn't you love to snowmobile your way to school every day?
Peruchito- A Peruvian who loves the snow? You are an anomaly fo sho.
ReplyDeletei like snow, i hate the cold. i wish we could have snow in the summer.
ReplyDeletethat being said, i like extreme weather. lightning storms, hurricanes, fun times.
i remember i was was in japan during an earthquake. destroyed a few costal towns, 7 point something. where i was it was like 4 point something, i ran out the the balcony and watched as the building shook. was awesome.
i just hate the boring... but thats just me. also, peru is only tropical at the coast. in the mountains, you get the seasonal changes because of the high altitude.
You will just have to excuse my brain freeze there, yes of course it is cold in Peru! I was just thinking of the stories my QC friend told me of the heat waves he experienced while there. Ponchos :D
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