I wrote myself a check for 10 million dollars
And I gave myself 5 years or 3 years maybe
And dated it Thanksgiving 1995
and I put it in my wallet and I kept it there
and it deteriorated and deteriorated
Just before Thanksgiving 1995
I found out I was going to make 10 million dollars
on, I think it was "Dumb and Dumber."
You can spend your whole life imagining ghosts,
worrying about the pathway to the future
But all there will ever be, is what's happening here
and the decisions we make in this moment
which are based in either love or fear.
So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality.
What we really want seems impossibly out of reach
and ridiculous to expect so we never dare to ask the universe for it.
I'm saying
I'm the proof that you can ask the universe for it.
My father could have been a great comedian,
but he didn't believe that that was possible for him.
And so, he made a conservative choice.
Instead, he got a safe job as an accountant
and when I was 12 years old, he was let go from that safe job
and our family had to do whatever we could to survive.
I learned many great lessons from my father.
Not the least of which was that you can fail at what you don't want
so you might as well take the chance on doing what you love.
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