mardi 17 novembre 2009

Why do i want to be Journalist

A couple of reasons I want to be a journalist are: I can make people laugh and learn, from my experiences, at the same time. Instead of keeping to myself, or simply gossiping, I get to write about the most intriguing idea I’ve heard of that day, or a crazy fact I’ve read about, while browsing the internet. Speaking of that, here’s something funny I came across the other day (It seems to prove that anything is possible, at first.): Q: How can you delay milk turning sour? A: Keep it in the cow! Anyhow, I am able to be a good influence, among the many bad ones, which are out there. I can take out my frustrations through my writing and come to conclusions, which will help somebody having my same problems. Just the other day, I was trying to come to grips again with that old familiar phrase that hardly ever seems to go away. Maybe you’ve heard of this before: “Life isn’t fair.” And you know what, I would come to grips with that while I sit on Grandpa’s knees, as he tries to console me, but that simply doesn’t seem to be the case lately. Instead, it seems to be becoming a very popular thing coming from the mouths of those people who have cheated me. How ridiculous is that?—“I’m sorry, life isn’t always fair…so I’m going to cheat you too!” I’m just going to ask those people to do this one thing for me: make sense when you talk.

As a journalist, I have the opportunity of presenting my stories to hundreds of people, as they read the morning newspaper and have their coffee. As a small-town columnist in my hometown, I have fans, fans who are actually interested in what I have to say for the day, and who come to me for advice—and God knows—I love to give advice. I have the chance to make somebody’s day or to just make them laugh, and maybe change their view on a particular subject of interest. And by the way, here’s something interesting to think about the next time you run to the refrigerator: Why is it that you keep returning to the same refrigerator with hopes that something new to eat will have materialized? Don’t deny it; we all do it. But why is that…really? Anyways, back to the prompt—my dad once told me about a quote he read somewhere: “Find something that you like so much that you’d do it for free, and then get so good at it, that they’ll pay you to do it.” And needless to say, I find the idea of being a good influence on people, even people whom I’ve never even met, to be very intriguing and an exceptional opportunity. Their question, to me, was: Why do I want to be a journalist? My question to the rest of the world is: Why would I want to be anything else?

As a journalist, I have that found the opportunity that my dad talked about—the opportunity to do something—something, which I love so much, I’d really do it for free. And with a little experience, I’ve grown to be good enough at it that they pay me to do it…it doesn’t get any better than that. And I’ll leave you with this......................

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