The Secret of My Success was on this weekend. I LOVE that movie. It’s my favorite movie of all time. It even surpasses my love for The Fast and The Furious and Fast and Furious. For those of you who think I just named the same movie twice, I shake my head at you. 2 Fast 2 Furious should never have happened and The Fast and The Furious: Tokyo Drift suffered for it, even though it was pretty decent. Before I start telling you how I’ve wanted to marry Paul Walker and have his babies since Varsity Blues, lets get back to the topic at hand.
I remember being a child and thinking that I want to live in the big city. I want to work in a sky-rise building. I want to have a corner office with a panoramic view of the city just like Brantly Foster/Carlton Whitfield. All of that seemed so exciting to me at the time. It’s interesting that all these things that you thought would make you happy as a child, really doesn’t get you excited as an adult. Corporate America is all that I know. However, I’m still trying to figure out if I like it. As Nikki kindly pointed out last night, I will be 30 this month and I still don’t know what I want to be when I grow up.
I like living in the city, but lately I’ve been thinking a lot about my hometown. I worked in a sky-rise and it seemed crowded if that makes any sense. Don’t get me wrong, it was exciting at first, but after a while it got old. I didn’t have a corner office, but I did have the panoramic view. It was nice, but whenever I looked out at the city, I didn’t really appreciate the view. I just kept wondering what someone else was doing and wishing that I was anywhere but there.
I suppose I should just keep my mouth shut and not complain, because there are people out there who don’t have what I have. However, that’s what makes this country so great. You can be whatever you want to be. If you don’t like what you do for a living, you can change your career. If you don’t like the city that you live in, you can move.
It’s called the pursuit of happiness. I’m all for pursuing it. I just need to start pursuing. However, like I mentioned before, I don’t know what I want to be when I grow up. It just seems like I should know by now. Shouldn’t you know by the time you are 30? Lets just hope I know by the time I’m 40.
Anyway, I’ve had Roger Daltrey’s The Price of Love (from The SOMS soundtrack) playing in my head all week. For those of you who don’t know, he’s the other half of The Who. Who? They sang Baba O’Riley. What? Oh my. If you don’t know this song I suggest you listen to it.
