As a kid you sit in your bedroom for days or weeks or years and learn guitar and how to sing along with it.
And then eventually it’s time to leave your bedroom.
You have two options…
Either leave the guitar in the room
Or
Take it with you.
If you leave the guitar in your room you can come back to it and it will always be there for you. You pick it up, sit on your bed and enjoy the feeling of music.
But if, when you leave your room, you take the guitar with you…now you’re on a different journey. Now it’s enjoying the feeling of music AND…making money, gaining attention, building reputation, connecting with people, telling stories, making your dreams come true, making others dreams come true, and the list goes on.
No one tells you what to do with the guitar. Both options were (and still are) on the table. You weren’t born for one or the other.
But I’ll leave you with this…The only thing music can be relied on for is the first choice. The feeling and experience you get when you play it. Beyond that you’re signing up for the circus.
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