Essay On Why I Want To Be An Actor

“What do you want to be when you grow up?” It is the question teachers, employers, friends, and parents incessantly ask…but it is also one of the most difficult questions to answer. How can I encompass the entirety of the rest of my life in just one sentence? The answer has always changed: through elementary school, I wanted to be an actor, through middle school, a film director, and through junior year, a prosecutor (a word often confused by my peers for something similar-sounding yet very different). However, I eventually realized that I did not want to be a starving actor, I did not want to have to work in Hollywood politics, and I did not want to limit myself to one location as a lawyer. Through some research, though, I found my calling: diplomacy. I could save the world, rule the world, travel the world, all while solving problems and bringing people together. Everything clicked together:

How can I usefully implement my talents and skills? I have realized that I need to use my life and career to make a real difference in the world. There are so many problems, tragedies, and horrors in the world, from ISIS in the Middle East to the gendercide of infant females in India and China. Yet even though there is all the bad, people still are able to change the world in a positive way, through humanitarian aid, peace treaties, and just general acts of kindness. That is the change I will cause. My field of International Relations can have a wide variety of professions with far-reaching impacts, the most common of which is participating in the Foreign Service, travelling the globe working as a diplomat. I will not be limited to just diplomacy, as my field ranges through international business, cultural studies, and governmental positions, all of which I hope to dabble in. Being tied to one career, in one place, for my entire life seems almost suffocating. I want to have freedom to change, to explore, and to