Make a Wish
When I was in my twenties I would say things like
this:
"If we spend the next 10 years of
our lives doing this and we only touch one person's life, it will be worth
it."
And I meant it. But as I got older,
cynicism and practicality and a good dose of reality set in and I started to
wonder if I'd had a positive effect on anyone's
life.
In retrospect perhaps I should have
been developing a proper career or in the words of jackie chan realizing his
days as a stuntman was limited and right before he became a superstar actor he
went home broke to his parents with these heavy words on his
heart:
"I have spent my whole life
training for a useless profession"
But
this last weekend, we spent the day at the zoo with a little girl from Make a
Wish foundation. If you don't know, they help grant wishes for children that
are terminal or struggling with a life threatening disease. She's 8 years old
and her greatest wish in the whole world was to go to Hawaii and swim with
dolphins. Her second wish was to hang out with us. We spent the day at the zoo
with her and we got to break the news that she was going to Hawaii to swim with
dolphins. I personally felt like she should have asked for Bono or at least
Miley Cyrus, but it turns out, our music has been helping her get through her
treatments and is meaningful to her.
I
have a gold record, ascap awards, songs in over 100 TV shows/movies and a grammy
nomination.
But I think the greatest
honor of all is being the wish of an 8 year old
girl.
I guess it was worth it after
all.
I'm honored to play second fiddle to
a dolphin. :)
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Posted: Wed - June 3, 2009 at 10:55 AM
