Day 17: Paradigm.

"A picture of something that has made a huge impact on your life recently."

Well, this isn't necessarily recent, but it has guided me to make a fairly recent change in my life.

FILM.

I grew up being a so-called film buff. Most of my childhood memories consist of me spending hours and hours of watching movies with my dad, and when I wasn't watching movies with my dad, I was watching them alone in my room...playing along with the movie, I must add. I was a lonely child.

Yes.

So...with that being said, movies have always had a huge impact on my life, especially when it came to career options. I secretly always wanted to be an actress when I was a kid. When I saw Mission:Impossible, I wanted to be a secret agent. When I saw The Mummy, I wanted to be an archeologist. After watching CSI, I wanted to go into forensics (I know it's not a movie, leave it alone). Eventually, I came to the realization that what I wanted to do with my life has been in front of me my entire life. I wanted to be in the movie making business.

Film is very powerful. It has the ability to suck in its viewers and completely take over their emotions. It takes on a reality of its own that I find so beautiful. For me, film is an escape. The making of a film is so exciting and complex...I love everything about film and I cannot wait to someday be a part of it.

With that being said, I am on the path of getting a college degree in Film & Video Studies. A lot of people doubt what I'm doing...sometimes I even doubt myself. But the fact of the matter is that I love what I'm doing. I'm never really gonna love school because school is school, but if I have to be learning something, I'm beyond glad that I get to study movies. And I promise you a million times over, it is soooo much more difficult than people give it credit for. Regardless, I couldn't be more excited about what I get to learn everyday.

Plus, who else gets to call going to the the movies and watching the Oscars homework?! It's AWESOME.

I'm very happy with where I'm going in life.

And one day I will make a movie about my life. It'll be great.