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Why I Want To Be Happy, Not A Typical Job

"Just to be happy."

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I had to do a project for career studies once, and one of the questions was: what do you want to be when you're older? I said to myself, I'm going to be clever and say what john Lennon said once, “Happy.” After that project I started thinking to myself, what do I want to be when I'm older? Most of the time I would say orthopaedic surgeon, other times I would say lawyer or surgeon depending on how I felt. But I truly said to myself, does it matter what I am when I grow up? If I'm happy isn't that the best thing, isn't that the only thing that matters is that I'm happy? Now when people ask me what I want to be when I'm older, I just say happy. They say, "oh you're trying to be clever like John Lennon." I respond, "originally I was yes, but now all I truly want to be is happy." As long as my family, friends, and I are healthy and happy, what more can I want? Who cares if I don't end up being a surgeon if I'm happy and healthy? What's the point of getting a job that I don't want for the rest of my life, just to make good money? There is none. So all I want in life is to be happy, whatever else comes is just a bonus.

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