Welcome to my Blog. It is going to be living on Patreon, but will be free for everyone for the time being. Hope you enjoy! I was standing at Tour de Pier (Bike for Cancer), a very cool event btw, and after singing the National Anthem I stuck around for a bit to see how the event went. One of the instructors had "The Climb" as one of their songs. Not a song I would have normally expected at a spinning event, nevertheless, I was standing there, in the rain, singing along with Miley Cyrus. Now, I never watched Hannah Montana, nor have I ever really listened to Miley Cyrus. The only other time I have ever heard that song was at an event in Denmark the summer before I left to move to the US. I was immediately brought back there... I was at a Gospel event at Tivoli Gardens. I had sung on the big stage and was standing there looking at some of the other artists getting ready for their set. I was about to embark on the biggest journey of my life. I was going to move to the US and become a country artist. I remember back then it seemed silly, even to me, to say it out loud. It was only a little bud of a dream, but I was passionate and determined. I was saying goodbye to friends, to my homeland. I should have been sad but I wasn't. I was excited. I was so ready to go prove myself, to embark on my new journey. During the intermission, "The Climb" came on. I don't know what it is about that song. It's like the lyrics pierce right through me. They did then and they do now. "I can almost see it, that dream I'm dreaming but there's a voice inside my head sayin', you'll never reach it". It brought shivers through me. There I was, about to chase the biggest dream of all, and I could hear that little voice too, saying "you'll never reach it". The doubt within the determination. I remember looking up the song, to see who performed it. Kinda surprised to see it was Hannah Montana. As I listened to that song, I felt like I was ready to take on the world, regardless of the outcome, I was ready to live the life I choose. And that it didn't really matter how far I got, as long as I tried. This time, standing in the rain at Lake Union in Seattle, the song hit me again. But this time the song resonated with me differently. It's been almost a decade since that summer in Tivoli. A decade of that journey. A decade of that climb. Mountain after mountain. Reaching parts of the dream and still chasing others. It made me think of all I've been through since then. I realized in a whole new way how much it really is about the climb. I truly didn't care how long it was going to take. It didn't matter what was on the other side. Or if there even is a destination. It is all about making the journey. It really is all about the climb. "There's always going to be another mountain, I'm always going to want to make it move."
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Welcome to my Blog. It is going to be living on Patreon, but will be free for everyone for the time being. Hope you enjoy! One of my biggest passions in life is personal growth. I devour self-help books and spiritual books just to learn more about the human experience. I think I might be addicted to insights. You know, those blips of realizations after which you never look at things the same way again? Call them epiphanies, aha-moments or inspirations - it's all the same to me. I quietly ponder and let my mind settle and sometimes, not every time, but sometimes some genius arises from within me. I know I am the source of these insights, but I know I don't come up with them. They come from something greater. I've learned that insights come more reliably when I'm in a certain state of mind. The less busy my mind is, the better. Sometimes I can't let my mind settle to save my life. My mind feels muddled and cloudy. Other times my mind is remarkably calm even when I'm physically busy doing other stuff. These are the least convenient times to get an insight. But funnily enough, often when my song inspirations occur. It's hard to describe what an insight is. But I'll try: I think about something a certain way. Then from seemingly out of nowhere, I get a flash, a thought, an insight of being able to see that same thing a different way. My teacher in India told it this way: "It's dark and you look at something that appears to be a snake. You get frightened and want to run for your life. But when you turn the light on, you see it is only a rope. Even when the light goes off again, you can't see the same thing as a snake ever again. Because now you know, it's a rope." I think this is the phenomenon that makes children see monsters in their rooms. Like the beginning scene of Monsters Inc. where the child sees the monster approaching, but then it's only his jacket hanging over the chair. Once we realize something profound like that, everything else looks different. It almost feels like you get a new view of life like you stepped up the ladder of life and are able to see things from a different, a clearer, perspective. Reading books about spiritual and self-help topics seems to get my mind churning in a very specific way that lets out insights. Maybe it's the act of quiet listening (I listen to audiobooks while I drive) while simultaneously having to be relaxed but alert that creates that perfect state of mind for these insights to occur. I'm not sure why, but it works for me. And I think this is why I love it so. |
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