what are your ideals? when does one start to go from "it would be totally awesome if i had a billion dollars and could spend the rest of my life in a beach house" to "it would be totally awesome if the world was a better place"?
i used to want to be a cashier. i thought my life would be great if i could sit around and collect money all day long.
in high school, i thought i could be a dipomat, to make use of my somewhat dubious cross-cultural background. then, i had some aspirations to be a filmmaker, thinking it would be glamorous and cool.
in college, i wanted to start an internet business, to make millions of dollars and change the world.
after working a few years, i thought i'd be more realistic and had the goal of heading up a sizable business at some point.
after learning from a yogi, i realized that all of this might not matter much at all.
yes, it would be really rather nice to have both a beach house and world peace. the problem with world peace is that the problem is too large for us mere mortals to comprehend. what about a school? for the cost of a beach house, you could build and run a school in rural china for decades.
so, would you rather build a school or would you rather have a beach house?
