Working on a still-in-progress posting about the joys of carpool karaoke with my Mom & other older friends, came across Jerry Seinfeld's series, Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. There isn't any singing, just riffs bouncing off the walls of classic cars, but it's old enough that it might have inspired Corben's epic Carpool Karaoke, which lead me to a youtube posting of a grandson doing his own version of carpool karaoke with his granddad, who has dementia.
Much as I expected it to be super cool - Jerry is driving one of the coolest cars ever, with the 2nd coolest POTUS (TR is still #1, which even they sort of admit) - did not expect to hear Seinfeld sum up my feelings about what I do, why I do it.
POTUS has asked, "How do you keep respect?" in the midst of Seinfeld's massive fame fortune acclaim. Jerry answers:
I fell in love with the work. And the work was joyful. And difficult. And interesting. And that was my focus.
Could not have put it better. And whether I make a pittance or beaucoup bucks, whether I subsist on Social Security or my work provides a full-throttle fortune, the focus will never change. What drives me will always be the love of an always-news, always joyful, always difficult, always interesting work I absolutely positively have loved from the first breath I took.
And that, along with the love of a good man who holds my heart in his hands, is about as good as it gets.
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