Scary, but Exciting: From Camila

 I’m moving to the US tomorrow with my family. It’s a scary but exciting feeling… don’t get me wrong, I am absolutely blessed and privileged to have the choice to do this and I’ve moved before… not countries but houses so it should be kind of similar, right? I’m just nervous that I now have the opportunity to actually follow my dream. Which is to be a working actor, I’ve dreamed of it for the longest time and now I get to live where movies are made! How insane! But back to my nervousness, I feel nervous because now I don’t have an excuse not to do it. I can’t say “I don’t have time for this” or “I don’t think I could do that here”. I feel like people tend to use excuses sometimes when it comes to dream following because we’re scared of failure, and I am. I admit it. But my love, enthusiasm and passion for it make my nervousness seem so much smaller. So I guess what I’m trying to let, whoever is reading this, understand is that fear and nerves can be use for good things. We are capable of making our dreams come true. We deserve to try. We need to hear the words “no” as well as “yes”. We need to understand that things CAN go our way if we put the right mindset to it. Don’t do things based off of tangible things. Money, clothes and jewelry? Those are things we can’t grasp on when things go wrong and I like all those things as well but if life during the pandemic has taught me anything is that my happiness doesn’t come from material things. It comes from within. It comes from hugging a loved one I haven’t seen in a long time.
Anyway, I feel like this letter is all over the place but I needed to get these feelings out and hopefully it’ll help someone.