Why I want to go into my career :)

(This is also my college application essay and it is longer than most posts I have done.)

Laugh: to be of a kind that inspires joy.  This is one of the many definitions of laugh according to the Webster’s Dictionary.  Through personal experiences I believe the laughter is the cure to anything.  I briefly remember being in the hospital when I was younger.  I don’t remember everything, which is probably a good thing, but the one thing that I do remember is watching Pixar animated movies and other movies with my parents.  One movie in particular was The Lion King, which was my favorite movie growing up.  I mean who doesn’t like movie about talking lions.  Those movies made my younger self briefly forget where I was and why I was there.  Also Finding Nemo was a major movie in my life. Like Dory said, "Just keep swimming."

This is one of the major reasons that I believe that the need for comedic relief is extremely important, especially in the world that we are living in.  With the shootings, children in the hospital and war; the world isn’t the best place to live.  However, I believe that through laughter the world can change.  I want to be that change.  The main reason that I want to become an author, a movie producer or an actress is that I want to provide that comedic relief.  I want to provide that kid in the hospital with a way to forget where he is, or to provide that family whose father left with a way to forget what is going on in their lives.  Sitcoms, books, animated movies and live action movies geared towards the youth are among the things that I want to help create.

Laughter, I believe, is just as important or more important than doctors and nurses in children’s hospitals. (Actually doctors an nurses are important and is a major reason why I am here.)  Although those doctors can provide the much-needed medical treatment for the children, movies can provide the much-needed distraction during treatment or while the child is in the hospital.  Not that doctors and nurses are not important, they are.  I can account being here to the tireless work of doctors and nurses at Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago Illinois.  Nevertheless, when I was younger I can also account movies to getting me through it.  You know those movies where everything seems to turn out ok; the guy always gets the girl, the bad guy always is punished, the dream always comes true.  Those “fairy tale endings” don’t usually happen in real life but it’s nice to be transported into an alternative universe in which everyone is happy and everyone gets what they want.

I feel that laughter is the cure to anything and everything.  Throughout my childhood, I had hardships but through movies and books, I was transported into a world that almost seems real.  The reasons that I want to become an author, movie producer or an actress is because of my childhood and what had happened in it.  Movies and books can better society; the children of the world need laughter, the same laughter that I felt when I was watching movies or reading books as a child.

Spread love not hate.

:)