Christmas is a time for gratitude, a time of celebration, and time to tell your parents you’ll never move back to your little home town.
If you’re like me, when you go home for the Holidays, you struggle explaining why one would want to live in a city more known for it’s traffic than for it’s success stories. Here are few things that can help you tell your parents you’re forsaking that place you came from.
When they ask you about traffic, tell them you don’t mind because you listen to podcasts now.
When they asks you what podcasts are, get them listening to the first season of Serial.
When they ask you about the crime in LA, explain all the fun things there are to do that distract from the constant fear that you might be punched by some drunk guy riding a hover board.
When they ask you what a hover board is, don’t get into it.
When they ask you about what you’re going to do for money insisting it’s hard to find job in the movie, tell them you’d rather be poor, fighting your way to the top, and resenting the people who find success before you, than be close to all your childhood friends.
Tell them you love your friends you see two times a year.
Tell them that when you drive in your hometown late at night, the vast blackness scares you. Tell them that you went to Los Angeles not to run toward something, but to run away from nothing.
This Christmas, when your parents are sitting by the fire in the house they bought when they were 25, look them in the eye, knowing full well you’ll never own a home, and tell them you’ll never move back.
Tell them you’re from LA now.
