A local alcoholic bullying incompetent lawyer who serves on the local common council - truly a horrible person. Heck, he almost punched me at a council subcommittee meeting a couple of nights ago. But he's famous only in Hudson and environs. So to name someone really famous, Donald Trump. I want him, up close and personal - and no, not in that way. I find him physically repulsive, but I digress.
What would you like to do for a living, if practicality were not an issue? Any fantasies in that regard? Just to prime the pump, for myself, I would like to be an architect. Thank you.
I'd probably be a writer. When I'm extremely stressed and everything seems like it's going wrong; I can sit down for a couple hours and work on one of several stories I'm writing just for my own enjoyment. When I'm writing, I feel like whatever's wrong or stressful is going to be okay and I can just forget about all of my troubles. That said, it seems like an incredibly difficult way to make a living and the question I asked myself was "If no one liked my stories, I made so little money from writing that I was in a 'starving artist' situation, etc would I still be content so long as I could write?" Honestly, I don't think I would be
I love writing stories, but it's not my dream/passion, so it shall remain a hobby. The other thing is that I write stories largely for myself and that it's kind of like an escapist zone that exists just for me and I think you lose some of that if you share it with other people. On the bright side, it has dramatically improved my writing abilities which should serve me well in law school
I suppose another answer might be a theatre, TV, or film critic given both my love of film and theatre (especially musical theatre) and (warning: incoming Hot Take
) the dramatic increase in the number of high-quality television programs. I save up money so that I can spend a week in NYC every few years and see about 5-6 broadway shows with seats literally right in the center of the front row during each trip (during my trip last October, I saw The Phantom of the Opera...for the second time, The Color Purple revival, The Humans, The Book of Mormon...for the third time, and The Lion King). Alas, I brought quite a lot of bullying upon myself by trying to talk to classmates about some of the musicals I liked during middle school (which led to many folks wrongly assuming that I was gay and behaving the way middle school boys tended to behave circa 2004 when they thought someone was gay). I love discussing, debating, and analyzing movies, TV shows, and plays. But I digress...
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What's a time where someone you know had a real positive impact upon your life (however you choose to define this) by doing something that either they were likely unaware would have such a positive impact or probably didn't seem like a big deal to them? I've been thinking about It's a Wonderful Life and the idea that everyone can touch plenty of other people's lives without even realizing it (especially through random acts of kindness), hence the question.
