"I don't want to be an old man anymore/ it's been a year or two since I was out on the floor/ shaking booty, making sweet love all the night/ it's time I got back to the good life
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About a month ago, I crawled into my bathtub and cried for 45 minutes straight. I told myself that I should give up writing, as I was never going to make it to the big time and that I would never finish my novel anyway. Then I realized that I (we) have dreams for a reason: to entertain and educate people and help distract them from their pain. I will write my novel and you will make a demo tape you like. We will not become those people thinking regretfully "if only I had followed my dreams" as we live out other people's dreams for us. Music is one of the defining things in your life and letting it go would be like if I stopped breathing. It isn't going to happen anytime soon. I suggest you find the lyrics to What You Own from Rent. It's about a songwriter and a film maker realizing that becoming numb is the only way to get through the "we gave up our dreams" lives they have chosen and in the end, they reject those lives and go back to their dreams. Your field may need more people like you but do you need your field
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If you're at work and online, you should sign on and talk to me.
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i'm so happy for you.
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