“The world is a beautiful book for those who read it…”
-My latest fortune cookie
I have some good news and some bad news.
First the bad news…
What goes up must come down and eventually falling off is inevitable.
Now that those astute, yet obvious observations are out of the way, what’s the good news?
If you fall off, then at some point and time you must have been up.
In life the constant cycle of ups and downs should be considered the cost of doing business. Typically, I’m a glass half-full type of cat so I don’t take the constant rise and fall of my fortunes personally. When viewed objectively, it adds perspective, humility, and drive to what would a pretty boring existence if everything went your way all the time.
From what I've seen, for men life tends to follow a typical pattern:
- Define oneself
- Act according to definition
- Successfully defend new self
- Start feeling oneself too much
- Take unnecessary risk(s)
- The fork in the road
- Exposure, betrayal, or intervention
- Fall from grace
- Retreat to find oneself
- Repeat steps 1-9
Why am I talking about this? The first and probably most important reason is to remind myself or anyone reading that whether the summer, winter, spring, or fall of your discontent to keep everything in perspective. Secondly, however, this is the structure of the new mix CD release “The Circle of Life”.
Now you glass half-empty cats will probably be like what about the four CDs you spoke on earlier? Well, as I went through the process of making this I pushed that idea back a bit. But fret not, faithful listeners…if you have a little patience, I’ll put those out as well during the last two months before I fade to black. That number does not include the final life listening project-related CD. At some point and time, I’ll collect them all and use them as some sort of incentive to heed my wishes (the next side project is percolating, don’t worry)…
Like always, hit me up with a request and I’ll get “The Circle of Life” to you (free of charge, of course) and as always stay positive.
In parting, I leave you with the most eloquent and ahead of its time lyrical summary of the thoughts presented above…
“Fat titties turn to teardrops as fat ass turns to flab
Sores that was open wounds eventually turn to scab
Trees bright and green turn yellow brown
Autumn called 'em, see all them leaves must fall down, growin' old”
-Andre 3000
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