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Today I'm sitting at my desk, thinking about how to avoid writing the cliche, and the first thing to come to my mind was this little memory:

 

Like most kids, I was told to write about what I wanted to be when I grew up. Being 14, there was no way I knew what I wanted to do with my life. My mind changed literally every day. What never changed, though, was the fact that no matter what I did, I wanted to do it for the purpose of spreading happiness to others. So I wrote my essay about how I wanted to "make people happy." My teacher thought I was ridiculous. That's not a profession. All the normal kids wrote about becoming a doctor or joining the military and I was the hippie kid that just wanted people to be happy. 

 

I did write a first draft about my childhood and decisions I've made since then. To be honest it was just plain depressing. Sorry to disappoint. Hopefully the thoughts in my head are a little more interesting. 

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Caring about the things that really matter and doing something about it is infinitely more important to me than trying to achieve a fancy job that pays lots of money. I had that goal for a while but it felt so self-centered. There are so many people without homes, so many civilizations that don't have clean water, so many trees being cut down, and so many endangered animals being hunted. How could I be working toward making millions so I can buy a gaudy house when I could be tackling a cause much larger than myself?

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So, no matter how I do it, I want to change the world in some little way that makes people's lives a little better. I don't care if I'm doing it through music, writing, or any other medium. I don't care if I'm working for myself or for someone else. I do plan on running my own business one day, but until then I'd like to work for businesses with a similar goal. 

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Thanks for coming to my TED Talk. I hope you found something useful in here. If  you're still looking for more juicy details on my life, you can keep browsing around my page or I'd love to have a chat! You can find my contact info below :)

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