I'm sitting with Vince and Jon smoking hookah and listening to Bon Iver. We're talking about last nights party and laughing. Then it goes quiet for a moment and Jon looks up and asks, "What did you wanna be when you were a little kid?" Vince says he wasn't ever really sure but then in Junior High and High School he wanted to be party promoter. He says he still would love to do that but he's just taking business because he's still unsure of what he wants to do. Jon says he wanted to be a fire fighter like his Dad. Then he decided that he want to be a lawyer, then a business man but he wanted to change the world too. Now he just wants to change the world. So he says he's gonna be a biologist and change the world.
They both turn to me. I look down and smile. I say, "I've been doing exactly what I've wanted to do since I was a little kid. Music. Nothing is going to change that."
We discuss how people tend to "grow up" and forget about those childish dreams. They aren't childish dreams at all. They are who we are. I hate it when people give up on that sort of thing. People seem to get older and worry about money so they give up and do something typical and don't take a chance. I tell them I think typical is stupid. I tell them I don't wanna be the old man that talks about what he used to want to be.
One thing keeps popping into my head the whole time I'm saying this. It was something you told me. I look up and say, "Some one once told me, 'If you do what you love, the money will follow.' Thats the best advice I've ever gotten."
Its true. It really is the best advice I've ever gotten. I've formed my whole life based on that.
Thank you.
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