“Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls”
-Joseph Campbell
I realized today that somehow I had become numb. In the last 18 months my world has completely changed. For the better I might add. But I confused growing up with growing old. I realized that I haven’t told my wife I miss her in a while. I don’t even think when I say, I love you. I use to get tingly and moved by that emotion. From time to time I just need to remember that it’s an emotion not a salutation. I love my wife more than I did yesterday. Our relationship has become so incredible. Yet I don’t tell her how special she is and I should. I don’t want her to question how I feel. On some level I had taken things for granted. Like my music for instance. I once dropped out of high school because music was my life. Ever since then I have over committed myself to everything but music. I need to follow my bliss, wherever that is. I need to give more of myself to my family and my work(music).
I saw Up In The Air yesterday and thought it was a good movie. One line got me, and spoke to me. George Clooney’s character is speaking to a father of two who he just had to lay off. He asked him a simple yet direct question. “How much did they pay you to give up on your dreams?” At that moment I felt like he was talking to me.
I leave you with a quote that my mom gave me.
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”
Henry David Thoreau
We may get off course from time to time, but we must redirect our sails and follow our bliss.
