Good morning all.
It was a rough night sleeping, but I'm back at it today.
I don't mean to overstate this, but the support from all of you has pushed me to continue to collect my thoughts and keep writing.
I want to start off by saying that all of you who talk to me about your mental health struggles are really appreciated. It helps to know we all continue to fight the good fight. And now we fight it together, which is how it always should have been.
That being said, we all also share a mutual love of music. I have honestly gone years without people that shared and understood the extreme passion I have for these beautiful pieces of art that we put in our ears every day.
If you go back and read some of my older posts, you'll see that my passion started very early in life. The passion has only grown as I've gotten older.
Music is honestly better than TV, especially for your mind. Just listen to the skits on Busta Rhymes albums, as well as Redman and try to tell me that shit won't make you laugh hysterically.
There's music for every emotion as well as any situation you might be going through. There is a wide array of artists that always know how to convey what we're feeling at any given moment.
I've always enjoyed r&b and hip hop. It's been frustrating for me that through negative perception around the music that people who I've known all my life don't understand. They'll say, "You're a white dude. Why do you love that music?"
What they don't understand is that I lived in a very diverse neighborhood after high school. That the people I forged relationships shared a mutual passion for music. I've never had that with the people I grew up with, because we were cut from a different cloth. And when I lived around more diversity, it felt like I could finally embrace who I was for the first time.
Sharing your passions with others is always rewarding. And it just doesn't have to be music. It could be art. Politics. Gaming. Anything you can think of, someone else has that passion just like you do.
So many people go through life living very passionless and unfulfilled lives, because they refuse to embrace that there are others who not only share the same interests, but the same issues that they face everyday. That's why people spend much of their time alone, living with toxic people who make life a miserable experience.
I discussed with a few people yesterday that toxic people can make everyone around them toxic as well. When you free yourself of all that negative energy and retrain your brain to turn negative experiences into positive outcomes, you will feel truly liberated.
Sharing my experiences and insights with all of you is truly rewarding and gives me so much every day. I may not be rich, but I feel plenty rich in spirit.
Let your passion define you, instead of labels that people put on us that are nothing more than someone's glorified opinion.
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