A girl was sitting with a friend she hadn't seen in a while (I'm assuming this because they seemed to be catching up on the past couple months). Her friend asked her if she was still going to school for drawing, she said she wasn't and instead was doing phlebotomy because it "made bank" compared to doing art for a living. She then continued to explain how in doing art for a living you can either be starving or extremely rich with not much in between. Her friend agreed, and told her how much she had loved art though.
Upon hearing this I immediately thought of the song "Ambitions" by Donkeyboy. In the beginning of the music video, a man is introduced and he has this flesh eating virus. The virus showed up the day he quit his dream of drawing and got an office job. I wanted to tell the girl to look up that video, but I was too shy, plus I didn't want her and her friend to know I had been eeves dropping.
It makes me sad when people don't pursue their goals/ dreams/ ambitions. I'm not exactly doing that either, but I'm trying (kind of).
Which would you pursue? money or happiness?
I think it's hard to pursue something that you want and something that makes money. I don't really know what I want - I just think I do I guess. And I know that money doesn't make happiness. But what I wanted more than anything in the world - what I still want - is to give money to my family for all that they've given me. I would slave away at on office job and with paperwork for hours beause they went through hell raising me and they need the help they can get, the help I know I can offer. Also, totally lurking and that's how I found this so don't think strangely of me. (you probably don't, it's cool)
ReplyDeleteHaya-Chii: Its's totally fine!
ReplyDeleteWhat you said makes a lot of sense. And though I want to give back to my family 10 times what they've given me, I know I have to be happy in what I do in my life.