Where There Is Love

I do not need lavish styles of life to make me happy.  I feel that it would only make me unhappy- having everything handed to me without a challenge.  Therefore, I have found a few personal life challenges for myself.  I am pretty sure that I will be relatively happy once these challenges are completed. They are based around personal achievements and they all involve a large amount of work to accomplish.

             

The first challenge I have for myself is to get on Broadway with piano.  This means that I would have to work very hard to build up the chops for Broadway and get referred onto the scene.  Pit musicians on Broadway are never hired- only referred between conductors and directors.  So the challenge would be getting myself up to that level and I would be very happy because I will have completed a lifelong goal.  Already, through the various musical performances at McNamara, I've played the Broadway level music and done fairly well.  Now All I need now is to get known in the music world and get myself in New York.  Music and musicals are what I love and I would be very happy to get this far.

The second challenge I would gladly face is to become an aviation captain.  During the few days I've had a class called Intro to Aviation, I learned that these captains are very well paid and respected in the aviation world.  I don't want the money but that doesn't mean I can't use it for someone else or for a greater cause.  Also, these captains only work for about two weeks at a time so it could fit nicely with the above challenge of Broadway.  The training required behind these positions is very extensive and it requires a lot of personal achievement and growth.  That feeling of accomplishment is also a great source of happiness.

The third and final challenge I have set for myself is to contribute one thing to the world.  What this one thing is, I don't know.  It all depends on what life hands me to work with or what tools I acquire from life.  This contribution that I would like to make would affect either the whole world or the whole United States of America   Do I have any idea what I would like to do for the world?  No.  I don't currently have the resources for solving a disease or ending world hunger/poverty. If I can obtain the funds I would gladly turn a supermarket into some sort of non-profit (meaning no shareholders; all money bought in goes to supplying the store and paying employee paychecks).  I would just as happily start up some sort of national or international charity to help families afford food.  

Whatever challenges I can accomplish in life will make me happy as long as I know that my life was worth living.  If I can help at least one person than that is what my sole purpose in life is to be.  I would die very happy if I know that at least one person smiled at something I have done for them, either directly or indirectly.