We are all walking contradictions, caught between the pull of what we’ve known and the call of what we’ve yet to become. Each moment is a fracture in time, a space where the past whispers and the future beckons. In this delicate balance, we find both the weight of what holds us down and the lightness of what could lift us. The tension between these forces is where we learn, where we grow, and where the deepest truths of our existence are revealed.
Category: Journal Entries
thoughts, ponderings, experiences and lessons learned. or, something deep and life-changing.
We are all travelers here, walking paths both worn and wild, sculpted by the choices we’ve made and the ones still waiting to be made. The world, in all its beauty and chaos, is a mirror — reflecting back the shadows and light we’ve yet to fully understand. Each step forward is both a revelation and a riddle, a call to remember something ancient and untold within us, a dance between what is and what could be. To journey is to become the question and the answer, to step into the unknown and claim it as our own.
Mastery is a myth, a moving target, always just out of reach. They say it takes 10,000 hours to perfect anything, but what they don’t tell you is that in those hours, you’re not just honing a skill — you’re unearthing the truth of who you are, shedding layers of doubt, and confronting the parts of yourself you never knew existed. The path isn’t linear; it’s messy, unpredictable, and often painful, but it’s the only way to find the edge of your potential.
You can use your fear to recharge yourself. Truly. It can drain you, crash your energy, or be transmuted into fuel for creative, inspired action.…
An artist will often have to choose to shun acceptable behavior, political correctness, and the comforts of the commonplace to truly exist in the spacetime of their genius. Playing it safe is like painting by numbers, stealing a riff, using pitch correction, obeying the clock, failing, failing again, and then giving up; pandering to the normals; ignoring what the world needs from us.