CHOICES
Life is full of choices. What to wear? Which college to attend? What to have for dinner?
Some choices are trivial and others will govern the rest of your life. It is usually not until
years down the line, when we are holding our grandchildren, that we realize the paths that our
choices have led us.
Do you follow your heart or do you do the sensible thing and play it safe?
You have two choices
One - you are offered a job managing a 2 million dollar restaurant. You’re yearly salary is $60,000 a
year and a company car to drive. That’s $5,000 a month. After the first year your salary can
increase to $100,000 - depending on the success of the business. How many thousands a month?
You do the math.
Two - Pack everything you own, move to Los Angeles and try your luck at breaking into the movie
business. In this scenario, you have total freedom but you’re also waiting tables ($2,000 a month,
if you’re lucky) and sleeping in the living room because you can’t afford rent by yourself.
Tough choice?
Pros for taking the restaurant job - its $60,000 a year. Which equals out to $5,000 a month. That's
a lot of money. Don't forget you get to buy a company car and they paid for it.
Cons. It is a 9 to 5 job doing the same thing over and over again. Yes, the money is good but if
you love what you do, does the money really matter? Restaurants are not really 9 to 5 either.
It's more like 14 hours a day 6 days a week. Think about that and how your soul will be in two years?
Pros for moving to California - The women are beautiful, the weather is warm and California's like
a whole other country. You get to pursue your dreams and even if you don't make it - on your deathbed,
you can say you gave it your best shot. That's all anyone can ask for.
Cons. Okay, you gave it your best shot and moved out to California. What did you really make of
your life? Stop chasing the stars and come back down to earth. Take the $60,000 and start a family.
How old are you? This is not what a Chinese man should be doing.
Restaurant: We all have dreams when we were young. Some of us wanted to be firefighters,
astronauts, and rock stars. Some of them realistic, some of them pipe dreams - there is nothing
wrong with dreaming.
We all need dreams to survive, but there does come a time when we have to grow up and join society.
Our passage from childhood innocence to adulthood is marked with acceptance of our own limitations.
Rock stars are one in a million. There are a million reasons not to go to California.
I have sixty thousand reasons to work in the restaurant.
California: What is life but a dream? Some of us give up that dream and some of us strive a
lifetime to reach them. Regardless of the destination, the whole point is pursuing that dream and
never giving up. Giving up is that sad lost of childhood innocence and not the acceptance of one's
limitations.
We all have limitations, but how you overcome them is the road less traveled. Live for your dreams
and don't dream about what could've been.
What would you do?
Write to iandean@yahoo.com and vote. I'll tally up
the total and let you know in two weeks.
Written by Charlie Cheng
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