SMELLING SALTS

Who's your go-to when you need inspiration? Life gets stupid pretty quickly and the motivation to be creative can dip drastically in a moment and without warning. These are the times when we're desperately in need of resuscitation, a life breath and/or stimulant. It's so easy to scapegoat kids and practicality as the culprits of dream extermination. "I had some dreams but hey...I gotta do what needs doing."

By this logic, my body needs to dump waste from time-to-time. It's a non-negotiable right? And since I gotta do what I gotta do, I better steer clear of recreation and plans to live a fulfilling life. There's a list of "gotta-dos" that still don't explain why we're not operating from places of passion. The way people follow kids around to soccer games on the weekend you would think the whole of American parents dreamed as children that they would one day grow up and watch packs of kids follow a ball around. I can picture parents as 5th graders saying to themselves that they aspire to abandon music, jettison athletics and discard a love for literature because...well...that sounds awesome. Nah bruh...that sounds like the stupidest, most counter intuitive thing ever. Basketball wakes me up, as does singing, guitar playing and writing blogs like this one. I have several passions and they better start showing up more in your life and mine or else...