denizaversusthem: to days of inspiration

"To days of inspiration"

If you don't know where that's from, please stop reading my blog and get a life. (Lol just kidding, not really)

Anyways, back to that. Yes, to the days of inspiration. Constantly, I find myself being inspired by everything around me, and today was one of those days. Today, even though all I did was work, my creative juices were flowing like no other (but of course, I couldn't do anything much about it since I was working and now I kind of forgot about the exact thoughts I was having. Crud. Don't you hate that? Upp, there goes me on another tangent). But I guess today, today was a day of inspiration. I started off my day at work (Marketing) and helping my boss take down all these posters around the store and we talked about how I got to be apart of the journey of redesigning the store. How awesome is that? That's honestly something I can see myself doing in the future. NO, not designing stores, but designing in general. It got me inspired.

I've honestly been thinking about where I will end up in two years once I graduate, and I have seriously been thinking that getting away from LA will be an amazing, scary, and rewarding experience. My choices, New York, San Francisco, and Paris. The lands of design and where the culture is honestly so different yet inspiring. BUT, Los Angeles honestly has all that as well, which is honestly breaking me right now. BUT, inspiration can be anywhere we honestly set our hearts towards right? RIGHT.

Anyways, back to design. It's honestly something I see myself designing for the rest of my life. Whether it's advertisements, magazines, or anything of the such ... I'd just be so happy to find a company that would enjoy my simplistic aesthetic. I know that it's very ambitious of me to dream of a dream this far out of my reach, but I really hope someday that my hard work will pay off.

I think another thing that inspired me today has to be this movie: Water for Elephants.

What can I say, the love story of this film did not intrigue me at all ... it was honestly the care and love that Robert Pattinson's character Jacob had for the animals (especially Rosie the elephant) in this film. If there's one thing in the world I hate, it's definitely animal cruelty. In my eyes, animals are a creation of God and have feelings and thoughts and emotions and instincts just like us humans. It pains me so much when I see animals in pain because they have no voices to speak of their pain, but one thing is for sure ... you care definitely sense pain and hurt in an animal just as much as you can with humans.

Going with today's theme of inspiration, I definitely was inspired to just be an advocate for all animals. Yes, I already am an advocate for animals, but I hope someday with whatever career I have, I hope that I can honestly contribute to helping animals. Maybe short films, commercials, photos, pamphlets, booklets, I'd love to help spread the word to always advocate for animals in the future through those sources. I don't know. This movie was honestly very touching to me. Though I wish the movie had more to do with animals, I also admired the fact that though Jacob did not finish school, it showed that not finishing school doesn't mean you aren't educated. An individual should never be labeled by the education they have completed.

Anyways, I definitely went on a tangent here. Overall, I really liked this movie. But I heard the book was way better, so maybe I'll go give it a go.

Must I say, I fucking love Los Angeles. I hate that I forgot my camera today so here's some high end iPhone quality photos for ya cool cats out there. Had the best time with my fame/bestest friend here at LA, Jetrina. From great talks to honestly just catching up, I can say that she's honestly the one person that made my first year in college a great one. I already know this girl will be a life long friend. She's honestly one of the only people at UCLA that I never feel awkward with (and believe me, I'm one awkward cat). AND to go with the theme of today's blog of inspiration, Jetrina is honestly such an inspirational person. You know, she's one of the stronger people I know and I definitely admire her and look up to her. She's probably never going to see this blog, but Famz, you truly are someone I look up to and I'm so glad I have met you. One day, I aspire to be as strong and humble as you.

The agenda for today was: