This question, was the opener to the weekend of TEDxSF.  My new friend Tony, has embarked on this mission to photographically display why people do what they do.  I suspect this question does more than provide Tony with some great pictures, it also forces the subject to question for themselves, and alter course towards a more fulfilling life.  As I thought about that question myself, here’s what I came up with:

1) Developing relationships with people in the way that I’ve been able to with MyFight has been extraordinarily rewarding.  From Sammy in Ethiopia who inspired me with his dream of “revenging poverty” to my friends in Deer Lodge MT, who are seemingly on-course to adopt the whole orphan population of the entire world; from the women in Honduras who believe “it doesn’t have to be this way,” to the Katie’s of the world who decide to give up their weekend to showcase MyFight at a campus wide event at Oregon State University.  The inspiration that comes when I get to connect with people who want to see a better future for everybody is priceless.

2) Because I believe the idea that “it’s always been this way, it’s always gonna be this way,” is the most boring and pathetic thing a human being could say and I refuse to waste my life settling for a world where young girls are forced to prostitute themselves for daily bread, and young boys become child-soldiers for survival.

3) Because I believe that God creates us to do something of value in this world.  I believe the words that Paul gives us when he says that we are God’s workmanship, created to do good work, which he has before ordained.  I want nothing less that the life that I have been made to live, I want every synapse firing, and every sense engaged.

I love what I get to do.  I love who I get to do it with.  I love the people I meet.  I love the dreams I get to build.

So I’ll pass on the challenge, Why do you do what you do?  Should you change?