We spend so much time working working working so hard, fighting the odds, overcoming obstacles, doing the impossible, digging for momentum, grinding it out every single day, slowly but surely, drip drop, drip drop…
…because that’s what it takes.
We know the immense amount of work we’ve done, and therefore we know that our career is real and legitimate.
We trust hard work and the long days.
But what about when speed finally finds us? What about when things are able to happen quickly? What about when “things are just happening”?
Since we know we can trust hard, slow, long work…it’s easy to then think that we CAN’T trust speed and ease. Because it’s too easy. Hard workers have a tendency to be dismissive of the easy.
If something comes easy can it be trusted?
If the doors are just swinging open for you, is someone playing a trick?
If things come easy and I’m a part of easy things, does that mean I’m not going to be considered a hard worker?
When the energy and opportunity move with speed and ease, let it happen.
It doesn’t always have to be a battle.
Let it flow.
Don’t dismiss it just because it’s going fast and easy.
It’s going to get hard soon enough again anyway.
You can trust speed and ease.
*But I certainly understand…most often you have to know something in order to trust it and most artist aren’t familiar with speed and ease…and so it’s simply the unfamiliarity with the concept that makes you not willing to accept it.
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I’m always interested in your perspective, whether affirming or dissenting. Continue the conversation anytime: gabethebassplayer@gmail.com