Is it instilled in us at a young age that we are all on the path to some sort of greatness? A great career? A great education? A great artist? A great mentor? A great love?
Perhaps it’s an approaching birthday or a moving concert that has got me to thinking about the path that I have traveled down that has lead me to where I am today. Does anyone’s life turn out how they planned or even hoped? To throw my own pity party I will be the first to admit that mine sure has not. I suppose one of the hardest lessons of life that I’ve learned thus far is that it takes some pretty hard reality knocks and many wrong choices along the way to realize.… that mistakes are something of which happiness is built upon. How easy is it to dwell on the past and the “should have done it differently” moments. It’s consuming sometimes. Get’s the better of you as it were.
For those that have never seen David Gray live I implore you to treat yourself sometime to this artist’s gift. This songwriter is one of the few that sounds better live than in the studio, a rarity in its own right. It has been a dream of mine to be someone’s muse. Call me a hopeless romantic but I can’t help but read Lord Byron’s poetry or a lyric of Gray’s and think…. to be such an inspiration to someone and to be loved in such a way that brings such beautiful words to a piece of paper and become timeless… well it’s to become immortalized in a way. To bring words to life and express them in a way in which they have never come together before and to create a completely new understanding…. that’s a greatness.
Of all that were mentioned above… who wouldn’t choose having a great love over all the rest?
