Dear future me.
Dear future Raquel.
Dear, future me.
Hi future me, it's past me.
I hope you are dating someone hot as hell.
That's number one.
So we just moved in today.
A lot of emotions you feel me? I left the family.
Picked up and moved from North Carolina, like what?
I'm in Texas right now.
I hope you become brave.
I hope you are confident.
I hope you're just secure in yourself and happy about where you're going in life.
I hope that you're proud to be a gay man and more people know that you're gay.
I know I want to get better at comedy, but I also want to get better
at forming relationships with women.
I hope that you have
taken full advantage of this experience.
And I hope you are fearlessly ready to walk into the next chapter of your life.
I hope that future me is watching this as a cleaner,
more organized and put together individual
and hopefully wiser and more in power too.
I hope you're working a job you actually like,
and are happy you go to.
I hope you discover new things about yourself that you didn't know.
You know, I just I
I hope that by the end of this, I figure a lot out about myself.
I don't really know where I'm going to end up after this.
Am I going to stay in Austin? Am I going to go to LA?
Who knows?
We're going to get away. Who knows?
Future Keke,
I love you.
I write down my goals and things I want to accomplish, okay.
I always try to read the last thing on the list.
It says "move to the city of my choosing."
Keep livin', baby.
L-I-V-I-N let's go, woo!
So I'm going to start this video by saying
I am currently unemployed, single,
umm...
Yeah.
This is over.
And, umm...
I learned a lot.
Yo, what is up y'all?
I'm back in Greenville, South Carolina,
I'm actually chillin' in my bedroom.
I did accomplish the things
that I came to Austin to do, at least in part.
I at least got
kind of on the right track.
Before taking this journey, I was very hopeful.
Did I accomplish what I set out to do in Austin?
Yes!
To start off with you end up actually
leaving the house more of a hot mess than how you came in,
in in terms of your cleanliness and general organization skills.
Austin definitely exceeded my expectations.
In a lot of ways it was very difficult.
It was hard to be away from home,
it was hard to put myself in a brand new environment.
Coming out of the house,
I still feel so excited for the future.
I don't know. I just, like,
the future has something for Keke.
I'm the happiest I've ever been in life.
It got a little romantic, that was definitely unexpected.
Um, comedy...
I'm still working on it.
I don't think I would gain that blind faith confidence without this experience.
And so for that, I am forever grateful.
Everyone was so helpful.
I learned from every single person and I am so grateful that I got to go.
It was just so amazing to find people that I easily connected with that
I felt like I didn't have to be someone else other than myself.
It's amazing that so many people from different backgrounds and upbringings
can come together and really love each other
for their differences.
Just seeing how we can all coexist like,
that was very surprising and entertaining for me to watch.
I just want to tell Raquel, I love you and I'm so proud of you.
I am so thankful.
I think the biggest thing I learned is that everything you want in life
is out of your comfort zone.