Bubba Ginnetty, Choose Your Ending.
I woke up today much like I do most days in a different city, this time london, completely overwhelmed with ambition and grandiosity disguised as anxiety and depression. But today was different, something inside my head said “You need to put this on paper, you need to share these thoughts with the world”, as they say this is the first step in manifesting what you desire for your life. So here it is, genuine, honest, and vulnerable.
I didn’t find out I have cancer, no one close to me died, and I didn’t just get back from a weeklong silent meditation that “Changed My Life.” I’m just DONE. I’m done living life the way it has “panned out.” I want to take control of what I want out of this short time on this earth, and I want to contribute something to the world, that maybe not everyone thinks is incredible or special, but it for sure will be unique. Much like this piece, people have written before about their view point on life, and pursuing their dreams, and some of us when seeing these things on social media or in a text from an acquaintance, sometimes think to ourselves, “Here we go again, another person “Chasing their dreams”, another motivational “Quote”. You know what, I think we need more of it. You know what we don’t need more of? Complacency, people deciding to settle, and more people dying before they ever discover their passion or purpose, or I like to call it “Sitting on the couch until their funeral.” I’ve been lucky enough to find mine. Actually, I didn’t find it “luckily”, I sought after it like an animal in the wild that needs to eat, I looked for it in everything, everyday. I have finally realized that it’s been right their since I could remember. From being a little kid who was the class clown always spending time on the bench in front of the principles office, or standing around a fire in a blizzard drinking beers in the woods in Boston, all eyes have always been on me as soon as I decide to tell a story or share my perspective on what I think about your choice in terrible sneakers. Some of my friends say, “You could tell a story about going to 7/11 and nothing happens, and it would still be entertaining!” I’m a storyteller, it’s the one gift that God or whatever you choose to believe makes us all unique, has given me.

The truth is I haven’t been living life in a way to tell the best story of all, my story. A lot of my life, due to “circumstances out of my control”, I’ve been assisting others in telling theirs instead of perfecting and obsessively pursuing mine. But that is just it, these circumstances are IN OUR control, we just choose out of fear to let life decide them for us. For the last several years I have been traveling the world, Tour and Production managing some of the biggest artists in music. For those of you that don’t know what that means, someone in this business who is boasting about it would describe it on social media as, “Killing It!!” “Jet Life”, or “Another Day Another Country!” And don’t get me wrong I have been fortunate enough to have such a “Cool” job that has taken me places I may have never gone without it, but I’m not happy. My job is nothing more than a waiter at a restaurant, getting artists drinks and towels, or a construction worker but instead of building a church or hospital, which is admirable, I’m building a lighting rig and video wall so 15 thousand kids on Molly can have fun for 90minutes. Although to some people from the outside looking in my life is “So Dope!” and they tell me how spoiled I am to be complaining about another flight to Japan. But guess what, most of my good friends “girlfriends”, this is NOT the life I want, and is not the life I’m going to CHOOSE to live any longer.


From now on I’m going to tell my story, in whatever medium I can. I’m a comedian, I have a unique perspective on things that most people just walk right by, and I have a voice that I believe needs to be shared especially regarding the current state of affairs in our divided country. Although I may never change lives through my comedy and I may never actually get people to see things from my perspective, if I do this with everything I have, I will have changed MY life, and changed MY perspective. The only way we can affect others positively is if we are living the greatest life possible for ourselves.

Whenever I decide to do something different or pursue a goal with no tangible outcome in sight, the people in my life who I like to call “Settlers”, no offense, always sing the same song. “There is no stability in that!” “Maybe you should try something that gives you some stability!” “When are you going to get married or buy a house?” Although no one thinks of these three things more than ME, I don’t want any of those things unless it comes from my passion, unless when I have kids they can be inspired by what their father does or has accomplished. I don’t want to breed children with a SAFE mentality. I want the people that come after me to ride it till the fucking wheels fall off!! I want the people that I effect to think that their delusional ideas are actually possible and I want them to be willing to sacrifice everything to make them reality. When I own a house I don’t want it to just be a structure to store my misery and unhappiness, I want it to be a building that contains energy and manifests great ideas, and hopefully great food, because whenever I do get married, she better be able to cook!! And no, I’m not sexist, I’m just fat and love food, so STFU. I want to wake up everyday and have designed my house in a way that I know will put me in the most comfortable place to create and execute.
Like all dreamers and chasers of great, I hope I become the most famous and influential comedian of all time, and I hope one day when I have nothing else to say, I Quit!! Instead of doing shows every night with the material that I made popular to the masses, I hope I hang it up, and chase a new dream whatever it May be. I hope I have the same desire and fearlessness to walk away from a lucrative business to start from scratch and pursue whatever passion grew inside of me while holding all of those microphones. I hope I’m as anxious, afraid, and unsure as I am right now, to change the course of my life to potentially bring something to the world that no one ever has before or ever will again. Quit your job, move to another country, just whatever you do don’t settle. Life has a lot of chapters, write your own story and most importantly CHOOSE THE FUCKING ENDING