Ya know sometimes life feels like a crap-shoot. You plan and plan and fate gives you a hand you didn’t plan for. I like to think that is what makes this existence interesting but sometimes it can take a toll on your soul. I mean here I am struggling to make my dream a reality 3 years after walking away from a great career and comfortable life. Now don’t misunderstand, my life now is still great. Next month I plan to spend a week in Johannesburg experiencing one of the greatest sporting events on this planet, The World Cup but the goal of me leaving advertising was to make it as an artist and it still feels out of reach. The time I SHOULD be spending to make it happen is spent working to pay the bills.
I won’t let this blog post spiral into a rant about how hard my life is. Too many people don’t have jobs and will never experience the things I have been fortunate enough to call memories. It’s just sometimes the weight of your dreams can feel like a burden. I guess that’s why so many of us never take the risk to chase them.
I’ve come to believe that quote from Friedrich Nietzsche, “Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.” My time working in the airline industry has helped me develop the more aggressive parts of my personality which was needed for a such a nice guy to help shape his future.
The quality of your life is not shaped by the events in it, it’s shaped by how you choose to react to it. I am propelled by need to succeed not by the fear of failure. I have learned to embrace failure because within each misstep is a valuable lesson.
I am on the verge of self-publishing a long awaited book of poetry which will serve as a vehicle for some of my shots and hopefully be the first of a series of books. I am in talks with an accomplished producer about my script about the advertising world that I hope to develop or sell. We will no doubt also work on a project about the airlines if all goes well.
I have so much talent that feel OBLIGATED to produce.
I am often reminded of the parable of the talents in the bible. We are all given talents some more some less but we are all expected to produce. To whom much is given, much is expected.
So although things seem difficult now, I will turn my snakes eyes into a seven because I know I can.
I won’t let this blog post spiral into a rant about how hard my life is. Too many people don’t have jobs and will never experience the things I have been fortunate enough to call memories. It’s just sometimes the weight of your dreams can feel like a burden. I guess that’s why so many of us never take the risk to chase them.
I’ve come to believe that quote from Friedrich Nietzsche, “Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.” My time working in the airline industry has helped me develop the more aggressive parts of my personality which was needed for a such a nice guy to help shape his future.
The quality of your life is not shaped by the events in it, it’s shaped by how you choose to react to it. I am propelled by need to succeed not by the fear of failure. I have learned to embrace failure because within each misstep is a valuable lesson.
I am on the verge of self-publishing a long awaited book of poetry which will serve as a vehicle for some of my shots and hopefully be the first of a series of books. I am in talks with an accomplished producer about my script about the advertising world that I hope to develop or sell. We will no doubt also work on a project about the airlines if all goes well.
I have so much talent that feel OBLIGATED to produce.
I am often reminded of the parable of the talents in the bible. We are all given talents some more some less but we are all expected to produce. To whom much is given, much is expected.
So although things seem difficult now, I will turn my snakes eyes into a seven because I know I can.
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