Light Reading, Heavy Thoughts.

“Everybody’s life has lines in it.  Chapter marks. Everybody’s life has chapter marks.  Some of them are really good and some of them remind you of a time when things went really well and some of them remind you of a time where things didn’t go well, or maybe didn’t go well at first and changed you and things went even better than before.  There was a line in my life when I was 19 years old where I said to my guitar almost literally, ‘you know better than me; therefore, I’m going to follow you wherever you take me, I’m going to trust this guitar.’  If that takes me to sleeping on a pool table or if that takes me to a bout of loneliness that I never saw coming I’m gonna still do that because I think I have a calling. And I know that I traded certain things as a human being, I know that I did.  And there are certain parts of my brain that will never be the same, there are certain parts of my brain that are now converted to being able to do things on this level that are at the expense of being able to do things on somewhat of a more docile human level. But I know, that is the very making of a calling.  Callings are not perfect.  When you have a calling, you have to give a lot up to follow the calling. That’s why it’s called a calling because the sound comes from far away.  And you have to follow the sound of your calling.  It’s one of the hardest things in the world to do, it’s the reason the world is full of really talented people who didn’t go try it and that’s okay, but to the people who hear the ringing of the bell of the calling.  That sound that they have to follow, you will have to give up certain parts of your life.  And yes, I’ve given up certain parts of my life to follow this sound and I have found a beautiful thing in it.”