A/N: Pitch Perfect 2 spoilers
"We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us." – Joseph Campbell
Beca Mitchell had plans.
After high school, she was going to move to LA, get a job at a recording studio and work her way up to being one of the biggest music producers in the industry, no matter what it took. But that changed when her father made her enroll at the university where he was employed, insisting that she get an education before "becoming P. Diddy."
That didn't deter Beca, So she had to wait a year. She'd pretend to be interested in this a capella crap, convince her dad that she really did try to get involved at school, then pack her bags and head to California—on her dad's dime no less!
All that was taken from her when Jesse called her dad to bail her out of jail.
Everything else was taken from her when she changed the set and yelled at Jesse. She didn't understand at the time why this made her sadder than not going to LA.
But as she stood as a world a capella champion with generations of Barden Bellas, looking out into the field and finding her dork of a boyfriend wrapped in an American flag, holding a flashlight and mouthing I love you, she realized that not even the City of Angels could ever make her feel the way she did right now.