Survive Everyday
The Survive Everyday Podcast explores the stories and systems that shape our lives, focusing on resilience, inequality, and change. Through candid conversations with individuals, policymakers, and experts, we uncover the hidden barriers that keep people struggling and discuss solutions to dismantle them. Our mission is simple: to spark understanding, challenge the status quo, and inspire action toward a fairer, more equitable world.
Survive Everyday
38: My "I want" song
A little more than a week ago I asked a question on social media. 
If you’re a musical theater nerd like I am, there’s always a song early in the first act called, the “I want song”. 
This is the song the hero of the story sing to set up the journey you’re about to go on. 
In Hamilton it’s the song “My Shot”. In the Little Mermaid it’s a part of your world. In Rent, it’s the title song called Rent. In Wicked it’s the Wizard and I. I could go on and on and on. But in nearly every single musical there is a song. It’s belted out, loud and proud. 
Over spring break I really thought of what I really wanted and how would by song go? What would it say? What did I want? What has been my purpose?
This honest appraisal of what you want is a tough introspective look. It’s incredibly uncomfortable. 
Here's how my "I want" song goes....
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