Closer

[alleyalligator]

I was never good enough.  When I got into the prestigious local choir, the one you had to audition to get in, my mother’s first reaction was “but you can’t sing.”  When I came home carrying the essay that had won first prize for my year, my mother criticised my subject choice and told me I could have done better and then maybe I’d have come top in

Comments

[ashgaelsonaria]

Thats cool.
As a painter I know the fealing - but when it does come out perfect I don't feal like I created it, it was there and I was nothing more then a chanal for it to be released.

[alleyalligator]

There's a definite moment of clarity when you create something that you know is good that really does feel like you're channeling something rather than it being you doing the work.

[i_17bingo]

I've never had to choose between my love and my art, but I've come close.

This is really a really good piece, FYI.

[alleyalligator]

Thanks. I've not had to make the choice either. Although I must admit that my husband does resent the time I spend on Idol entries...

[i_17bingo]

I dropped out for my wife, so there's that, I guess...

[jem0000000]

Poor woman.

[alleyalligator]

Indeed.

[n3m3sis42]

Oh, wow. I very much related to this.

[alleyalligator]

I think anyone in Idol for too long can relate :P

[m_malcontent]

Art and obsession are closely related.

[alleyalligator]

That they most definitely are.