Joseph Carroll

Hi there, my name's Joe. For the past few years, I've had a pretty lame job- I'm a cook in a restaurant and bar. I'm not a chef, I'm a short order cook. So my job consists of completing the same mundane tasks, over and over, for hours on end. One day, I had an epiphany. I caught myself in a fit of rage over the mistakes a waitress made during the dinner rush and the blame game that ensued. I suddenly ceased seeing the point in my anger, and asked myself, "Why do I live this way?" My stress levels were through the roof, and the effects seeped into my physical and mental health, while I destroyed relationships and wasted my days. All of this, for an eleven dollar an hour job? Combined with stress from school to get my degree in Business Management, and the exorbitant debt I would be left with from chasing that lifestyle, I felt trapped and broken at 20 years old. Realizing my confines was the start of what I recall as a beautiful journey of self-discovery.

Following a period of spiritual introspection, I decided to aspire for something big instead of these petty games I was participating in. I now aspire to be a social engineer, journalist, anthropologist, philanthropist, peacemaker, friend of the world :)

You'll not see my name in lights, I don't want to be known. My sole purpose (my soul's purpose) is to live my life the only way I know how- by promoting happiness, knowledge, love, peace, and the rights of man, woman, and child. I look at the context of our world situation these days, the second millennium of the common era, against the enormous scale of humanity. What I see is a tumultuous time in which everything we have come to know about existence, ourselves, and our technologies is coming to fruition before our eyes. And I would simply like to be a part of it.