“unreachable” star!
Put Job in Your Play
Michio’s remarks triggered a vivid childhood memory. I recalled when I first heard the word “job.” I was eight years old.
One day I put together my schoolteachers’ complaints about their work and my father’s look of exhaustion when he came home from the office. I realized in a flash of recognition that I wasn’t going to be allowed to simply play the rest of my life. I’d have to make money to live. I’d have to work. I’d have to get a job! Yikes!
After days of pondering this latest life predicament, lightning struck. A brainstorm to save my spirit! I decided that I’d get a job, but unlike my teachers and father, I’d find a way to make money doing something I liked. I’d get paid to do some activity that I’d be doing anyway whether I got paid or not. What an ingenious plan! The simplicity and innocence of youth! Or do I hear “naïvety?”
Yes, I was naïve. With the rigors and demands of high school and college, I forgot—or got talked out of—my own brilliant strategy to make work fun! … until my friend the Truth Teller came along to remind me.
Passion Leads the Way
My memory of youthful clarity refreshed by Michio, I began to pursue my passions. I was fascinated by food and cooking, so I became the vice-president of the largest natural food company in the world. I then became a chef and eventually owned two exciting restaurants. I loved movies, so I became a filmmaker. I devoured books, so I became an author—and even had my own radio show interviewing authors. I was elated to have cured myself of blindness, so I became a healer, acupuncturist