My Future
15 Jun 2010 Leave a Comment
“the best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time.” -abraham lincoln
i want to own a teahouse. i want, more specifically, to own a teahouse in seattle.
yet everyone around me seems bent on getting me to “settle for what i can get”. my father, for instance, thinks i should get a job with the local engineering corporation and spend the rest of my life hunched over a computer program, designing boats for people much richer than i. while i understand that there is very good money to be made in this business, it is not what i want to do and therefore i refuse to spend the rest of my life doing it.
i imagine myself in an old bed-and-breakfast on a sloping seattle street, serving tea until my feet are numb and i can do no more but crawl home to my loft and collapse into sleep. so why this “do what you hate as long as it makes you money” mentality? does anyone else out there in cyberspace think that life is way, waaaay, too short to waste it in some miserable job?
or am i alone in this free-spirited, wild, kooky way of thinking? does everyone else content themselves with hellish careers just because, hey, at least it pays well? i do certainly understand the need to keep food on the table and all that, but there are certain limits to set.
i will never, ever, spend my life in a job that leaves me a soulless, jaded husk of the lively person i once was, simply because i need the money. i, right here and right now, pledge to only do what i love because i would rather live broke and doing something that brings me to life, than rich and unfulfilled.
so who’s with me?
