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The Guy Who Wrote "Jingle Bells"

Name: The Guy Who Wrote "Jingle Bells"
Uploaded: 2025-06-20T18:01:02+00:00
Duration: 45 s
Channel: Shanli Liu, CPA, CTP
Description: In this short monologue, the speaker muses on the obscure, tragic life of the composer of "Jingle Bells," who despite a career of failures managed to…

20 Jun 2025 · 1 min

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In this short monologue, the speaker muses on the obscure, tragic life of the composer of "Jingle Bells," who despite a career of failures managed to create a song that became a global Christmas staple. The speaker uses this story as a springboard to contemplate a philosophical dilemma: would they trade a consistently good, uneventful life—what Aristotle might call the "good life"—for a single, enduring achievement that outlives personal success? The reflection oscillates between melancholy about personal failures and a hopeful, if uncertain, belief that even in prolonged hardship one might eventually produce a lasting contribution akin to "Jingle Bells."

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Do you know the guy who wrote Jingle Bells? No. So there's this guy, he has the most tragic life you can imagine. Did nothing but failed, was a failed everything. He just happened to write this small thing called Jingle Bells, and it has become, you know, the number one song at Christmas time, like maybe globally. And I think about that life where it's like, what if I failed at everything, but then I have one thing that actually makes a permanent impact? I was like, would I trade that life for Aristotle's good life where I amount to nothing, but the whole time was good? And this is just one eternal battles where I think with myself that I have no answer for, to be clear. But when I'm, when I'm thinking through the periods where things suck, I'm like, well, maybe, maybe I'll get a Jingle Bells out of this, and maybe it'll just take 20 years longer than I thought.