Carving scars from stone

Long time, no post. Maybe this can be attributed to lack of motivation, ideas, passion, money, a keyboard.......all pretty awful excuses if you ask the right person, so I'm honestly going to make an effort to take time at least once a week to just put ideas in binary code again.

This stems from an idea I had during the week, regarding who we choose to surround ourselves with in the course of our daily shenanigans, both business and personal. I think we've all felt that feeling of "I wonder if the grass is really greener on the other side" from time to time, and that's absolutely normal for anyone who doesn't just settle for what's laid out in front of them. For me personally, it's ideas of traveling the world or writing for a publication of any sort, moving somewhere exotic and working as a bartender on a beach, elephant trainer, etc. It's the idea of self identification and the strive for always being a little bit more exhilarating, even to yourself, not just how we are perceived by anyone else. In thinking about this, I realized that surrounding myself with creative and forward thinking people is just as important as being surrounded by people who have reached the pinnacle of their pleasure centers by receiving a coupon for Old Country Buffet or took a sweet picture of their accomplishments in Farm Ville. I seem to draw a crazy amount of inspiration from both sides of the coin, and beyond my passion for music I'm brainstorming other facets of creating something out of nothing.

So my realization is this. Creating something from nothing is fundamentally the idea behind everything around us, from the start of the Universe to coming up with an idea, no matter how ridiculous, out of absolutely nowhere. With that I want to personally strive to force focus everything in my life that sucks the soul out of me and use it as inspiration to create something that will not only appease me personally, but give some sort of comfort or entertainment to others. I fully believe this will be a great year for progression and contributing to an already amazing cast of misfit idealists, like a traveling band of gypsies who despise snow and abandoned tradition by taking showers and paying taxes.