Prompt #4: Ideal good life

Choosing one celebrity as having my ideal life is fairly difficult, as many celebrities live a life of comfort and luxury that I would like to have. On one hand, part of me idealizes some professional athletes, as I would love to be able to play a sport as my job and enjoy all the financial benefits that go along with it, but at the same time, many professional athletes have chaotic personal lives, or squandor their money (i.e. Mike Tyson). Not that I would make those same decisions, but if we are looking at a specific person whose life we would wish to emulate, it would not be most pro athletes for me. While this may be a cliché choice, I would have to say that Bill Gates would be the celebrity whose life I admire the most. Not simply because of his obscenely large fortune (although that is a factor), but also the fact that is the epitome of a self-made man. Going from a college dropout, to starting your own company in your garage, to one of, if not the, richest man in the world is impressive to say the least. The one other aspect of his life that I admire is the fact that he has essentially retired from his CEO role, but still continues his philanthropic endeavors. Personally, I do not feel that celebrities owe anything to society, but to see a man who could never earn a dime the rest of his life and still have more money than some countries not simply rest on his laurels but put his wealth to good use is enough to make a self-admitted individualist like myself feel at least a little inspired.