The Excitement of Survival

Which ultimately leads to the joy of living

Call me insane but I don’t like to live in a stable environment all the time. There’s something about the volatility of life that quite literally gets me going. Looking back at my 31 years of life, I was most fulfilled in situations where I was at the forefront of freedom and survival. It’s not that I enjoy being miserable, but rather enjoy the process of getting myself out of a miserable situation. There’s joy in saving yourself.

I was living alone in Los Angeles during the second part of the pandemic. When everything shut down and we were told to stay home and save lives, I knew that was simply not an option for me. I flew to Miami and stayed until things opened up in LA. I was a student at the time, so I stayed at a crappy AirBnB somewhere in Lynnwood which eventually led to me moving to a hotel with a nice balcony in Brickell.