Chicago feels like I am at home. I spent freshman year researching colleges and universities, adding pictures to my Pinterest board, and it really started to feel real. For Christmas, my uncle got me and my siblings tickets to Lollapalooza, and I started to count down the days until July 31. Last summer was very hard for me, and I fell into a slightly depressive episode for a few months (April-late July), but the day that we landed in Chicago, that weight was lifted off my shoulders. Stepping up onto the street for the first time in a year, spending dusk walking around lincoln park with my sister, the wind coming off Lake Michigan and hitting our bare shoulders, or spending the nights walking along the Chicago River, taking pictures on the digital camera I thrifted earlier that afternoon, even spending the day in a pair of cowboy boots walking around Grant Park listening to Cage the Elephant play Cigarette Daydreams, jumping around with my sister, my legs getting covered in mud, to 2Hollis, and then running across the park, squeezing our way past so many different people. A man and his son, two friends who are slowly falling in love, or a group of college students whose shoes I will be in in a few years, and finally making it to our spot to listen to tyler the creator play See You Again. The thing that I love most about Chicago is the amount of diversity in not only the people but the feelings it ignites, how big but also intimate the city can feel. I love walking around and seeing so many different faces, different people, but I also love being able to walk on that same street as the sun sets and feeling so at peace. Me and my sister spent one day walking around with my dads credit card and we did some damage (as one does) but after all of that we sat down a taco place. While we were sitting outside, it hit me even harder that this is where I belong; I could see myself doing this every Thursday, and my sister told me the same thing. So we made a plan, I’m going to go Loyola and shes going to get some sort of internship and move to Chicago as well, Maybe we’ll get an apartment together and it will be like the 2006 show What I Like About You or maybe we wont. I think that unknown aspect also intrigues me. Being in a new city so far from home but also close enough to family where im not alone. So when ever I feel overwhelmed, lazy, or even just defeated, I remember what I'm doing all of this for. I am doing it for Chicago.
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