A crash course in changing the world.
For me, since I still don't really know what I'll be doing with my life, I decided to instead imagine a potential future. One I'd like, be satisfied with, and enjoy. If I was asked this question several years from now I'd probably be able to give a response that would fit much more fluidly with the prompt given.
However, I guess this will just have to do.
I imagine waking up in April 2020 - 10 years wiser both in mind and spirit. Those ten years would make me 26 (26) years old. In this future I have a Masters in International Business, having done my undergraduate at Chicago University and my graduate at Stern Business school and spent a semester abroad with their International Business program.
I'd wake up around seven (7) in the morning in my bed in my small house in Chicago. Go take a shower after shutting off all my alarms and then, in my bathrobes, grab my tablet and head to my dinner table and prepare myself breakfast. As I did so, I'd be filing through all the latest issues of magazines I subscribe to that I've yet to read on my tablet. By the time my breakfast prepared, a simple mug of hot chocolate and waffles, I'd be reading my magazine.
I'd be learning about the newest innovations in businesses and new entrepreneurs who managed to "make it." When I'm done with breakfast, I'll the mark the page I left off on and get dressed for the day.
When I leave, it will be no later than 8:30 in the morning. I'll drive down into town towards a building marked by a sign, which I'd smile at, since it would indicate the building as the offices of my company a social enterprise dedicated to several different social causes including stopping animal abuse in China and reforming education and government globally.
At the offices, after several meetings, I'd take my break and go down to a local coffee shop nearby. I'd have my laptop with me, buy a croissant and another chocolate and sit in a comfortable seat, facing the street and oncoming traffic.
With my screen showing the latest edition of final draft, I'd continue to write my script to add to those I've already completed, trying constantly to keep my voice intact and my message pure and truthful.
After one hour, I'd return to my office. I'd go over the business structure and make sure that it's in optimal condition and working efficiently. After another meeting regarding the politics of the U.N., which at this point I'd surely be inquiring in to eventually get involved in, I'd go to a large hall in our building where I'd meet twenty of our new employees and give them their induction. We'd hire employees every two years, with only a quarter of them progressing significantly after their first two years with us. The employees would have many different choices for things to be involved in with the company. Whether it be being involved on the front lines trying to make the world a better place, lobbying to different governments around the world, doing research on the state of things from a global point of view, or innovating to provide more ways for my company to help the world.
Around seven o'clock I'd take another break, this one small, only fifteen minutes - but in those fifteen minutes everything would change.
I'd receive an email from Alchemy. I would have been aware of the food crisis in Tokyo but not have found a decent way to combat it yet or a good way to get involved. With Alchemy's call, I know I could rely on putting my mind together with that of other talented individuals. I'd dedicate my time and resources to helping solve the problem without loosing sight of the ends... a better world.
It seems like a much more complicated thing than it is really. I guess it might be because its subjective, but I love this world. I'd even love this world ten years from now - even when it doesn't love me back. But I respect the beauty found here, the miracles and kindness I know is present, and will be.
Good people is not a question of when or where but of what and why - What will make them good people and why are they good people? I'll try to answer the question, in fact I'm trying now - but even if I haven't found an answer ten years from now I'll now something. I'll know who the good people are, they'll be the people responding to Alchemy's call.
And I'll be one of them.
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