Using your non existing privilege as motivation to live out your passion

     Dave stone is an up and coming new comedian (very funny btw) who chose to live in a van to live out his dream of being a stand up comedian. Even with his friends and family telling him it's a bad idea he still chose to go through with it. By doing this he did not only save on much needed money that is required to live in Los Angeles but it gives him material that he can use to talk about on stage. Working with the bare minimum, he's somewhat like Chris in our book "Into the wild." Even though living in a van has major disadvantages, some problems that a homeless person would have to face like finding a bathroom to use, such privileges that an everyday citizen takes  for granted. When he's on stage it's all worth it, he can forget about all his problems to make other people happy. As a comedian he would be considered successful, he gets paid at gigs, has been doing it for a long time as has a successful bit. In any other line of work he would be seen as hitting rock bottom. This shows that success is all based on your point of view, if you're always basing your success through the eyes of others you'll never be successful. When the thought of someone being traditionally successful you come up with the thought of someone working a 9-5 job with a big house, spouse and kids but, everything slowly changes with every upcoming generation with, now success can't necessarily be measured in dollars but now in someones personal achievements and level of happiness. Not having these responsibilities of having a wife or kids has giving Dave stone more freedom to do with experiment.