This blog post is part self-motivational speech. If I am honest about myself, I know that I love to learn new things and understand things fully but actually finishing a project is not my strong suit. Sometimes I like to see all the lights turn green before I leave my driveway. It's really dumb when you put it into words like that.
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Sometimes the pursuit of knowledge comes at the expense of actually putting that knowledge to work and learning about the how the theoretical becomes the actual - "where the rubber meets the road", so to speak. Part of that is because I fear the perfectionist that resides inside me. I can be very critical (and at the same time objective). It isn't going to be perfect just because it's "my kid". I think part of that is because I grew up with a very negative mother. Her unspoken philosophy was "blessed are the pessimistic, for they shall not be disappointed". Disappointment can hurt.
Well, as the Dread Pirate Roberts said in the great movie "The Princess Bride":
Disappointment is part of life with imperfect people (like oneself). Your only REAL choice is: what are you going to be disappointed OVER and how often are you going to feel that disappointment? I'm 55 years old. It is time to stop being disappointed over things that turn out to be less than perfect and instead be disappointed in myself for not not making the attempt: trying to accomplish them at all. Things that I've "wanted to do" my whole life, like play guitar. And now, to make CBGs.
Yes, I'm learning a lot about the process from talking and reading, but it is time to Just Do It and learn FROM the process. (And learn to play one of those little boogers). Perfection can come on the next one....
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sounds interesting...! let us know when it's finished (-:
"Thank God for the journey." ~James Brown
what's that Ron....."some people make me sick" or "I may not be the fastest and may not be the best.." ? (-;
Some people make me sick - everything they do is right, they never make mistakes, they have the perfect happy marriage, beautiful clever children destined for University, they never get ill, their perfect lives are an inspiration to us all.....
but they don't exist, they bravely create the illusion all is well, but if you got to know them and sat them down for a heart to heart it would all come out - the confused childhood, the abuse, the bad crowd the kids got in with, the medical ailments...the list would go on, everybody thinks everybody else is perfect but it's not true, the millionaire sick with worry about losing it all or his/her kids secretly smoking dope or being kidnapped for ransom....
don't look at me....after a history of bad luck, accidents, divorces, bad company and debt my final position is destined to remain as a carer for my sick mother for the foreseeable future, nothing to show for a lifetime of working except an unabated urge to keep being creative and making mistakes, and having fun doing it..! when you go you can't take anything with you, like I wrote in my most recent song ..
"but now i'll have a lot more time to further my quest,
I may not be the fastest and may not be the best,
i'll keep it to the grindstone hope it don't go away,
just doing what I'm doing and i'll live for today"
mistakes don't matter, you need them to learn by and keep going, you can't keep fretting about the past but can improve in the future, like they say the journey is the thing not the destination (-:
Homemade not Factory made !!
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