Who Do You Want To Be is a More Important Question than What Do You Want To Be
You know, people ask you when you’re growing up, “What do you want to be?” “Oh, I want to be a doctor..I want to be a lawyer…I want to be a schoolteacher…I want to be an auto mechanic…” You know, whatever it is that’s honorable. I believe that that’s the wrong question. It doesn’t really matter what you want to be as long as it’s honest and honorable. the more important question is WHO do you want to be? And that is who you are as a person, as a member of society, as a father, a husband, a wife or a mother. As a worker in whatever company. that’s the critical question: “WHO do you want to be?” And that’s the message that we try to teach these young men year after year and I’d like to think that we have some success in that. WHO do you want to be is much more important than WHAT you want to be.
Larry Gelwix | patrick March 20, 2009
