My mother sent this to me this morning. It is a copy of an email that I sent her 10 years ago! It was my second year in college at Columbia College Chicago. After my freshman year, I chose to stay in Chicago and not go back to Cincinnati for the summer. My parents told me that if I was staying in Chicago, then I would need to support myself. I was the only one of my friends that did not go home for the summer. I moved out of the dorms, found a roommate wanted ad and moved in with 2 older guys in the city.
I was working at House of Blues in the company store folding T-shirts and at Billboard magazine as an assistant. I had just started to follow the production staff around as they set up for the concerts and I knew that this was what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a live sound engineer. So, I quit my Billboard job to give me more time to follow the production team around. I wanted to be there from load-in to load-out, and not just arrive after I got out of Billboard at 5pm. Arriving at 5pm I would get to see soundcheck, but none of how it was all set up.
So, I chose to follow my heart to work for free and let go of my good-paying assistant job. Never once have I doubted that decision. Soon enough they started to pay me as a stagehand (since I was not going away), and then letting me do sound for the blues bands on the restaurant stage and so the story goes…..
Also thought of this :I saved it and always had it available in my ‘whatever box’-for some reason I never filed it away. I guess I used it as a reminder that as much as I would worry about you, you were happy and that ‘s what counted.
Love you, Mom
Love you, Mom
This inspires me soo much!
Thank you!
so awesome!!!!
Lovely, there are soooo many ways I am proud of you…now I get to add this to that list. I love you! Mel
I have tears in my eyes now…I heart you, though we never met.