People don’t move to Nashville to have a quiet life. They don’t move to Nashville to blend into the background and modestly go about their business. The don’t move to Nashville because they’ve given up and are looking to lay low.
People move to Nashville to be someone. To achieve the dream. To come out on top. To leverage talent, skill, relationships, time and hard work into something that is respected and desired by peers and maybe even the world.
And that type of pursuit changes people. It changes the bars and the coffee shops. It changes the neighborhoods and the vibe of the entire city.
Nashville has a lot of magic and a lot of heartbreak. Heartbreak for those who didn’t get what they dreamed of and heartbreak for those who got what they dreamed of only to realize it’s never enough.
But when that intense pursuit is distilled down to simply pursuing the creativity of the moment, it’s magic. It’s more than magic. It’s life giving and life changing. And maybe it could change us enough to dream deeper than ‘the dream’.
