Why are you here?
To read? To learn something? To kill time?
OK, not why are you “here” at this website. Think Big Picture: Why are you here? To narrow the gap between the rich and the poor? To help people? To have fun? To create?
Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Darryl McDaniels from Run-DMC, who we met at Planet Comicon last year, asked himself that question after returning to a hotel after a night on a European tour. He’s pictured above with Wil Wheaton and my pal William Binderup. McDaniels asked himself that simple question and wrestling with that question set him on a path that he recounted to a crowd of college students years later. National Public Radio located an audio recording of that talk that they re-broadcast this past Wednesday night.
The result is a great story, and may serve as inspiration for anyone suffering from depression, anyone who was adopted, and it surprisingly serves as a great message about the power of fandom. It also should cause you to consider the possibility that you can do anything you want to do with your life, and sometimes you may even surprise yourself if you aim high. Maybe there’s more to who you are, who you like, and what you know–and don’t know–about yourself.
