Long Goodbye

(I was also going to title this post, "The Reason I Quit Instagram.")

The past becomes the present and cycles continue. Norms and behaviors are passed down from generation to generation, and yet we believe that this moment in time is going to last. When you're "It" you could simply get caught up in the moment and believe your own hype. You could be all like, "Oh me, oh my, my one moment to POP has finally come to pass. I'm the center of attention, the buzz is about me, I'm trending!"

I would imagine that this experience of being the talk on everyone's lips must feel so euphoric. The sense of accomplishment and pride in your work, in your job-well-done, must really make you feel good. Granted, you must of grinded it out if you actually become the talk of the town, nobody gets there by luck these days. However, like most highs, it eventually comes down. You stop being so shiny and so new. The crush has worn off and when you try to dig a little deeper, reveal just a little bit more, the public begins to hold back and starts to reconsider how they spend their precious time.

The best thing we as a society can do right now is become self-aware. Let's look up from our devices and stand up straight. No more epidemics of young teens being called "Turtle Necks" because they spend so much time over their iThings. No. Instead let's make eye contact and smile. We can talk. Like, really talk. I think it's time for of that.

That being said, I want to continue to make new things through all different types of medium. If they're not pieces of music or songs, then I hope they are some other form of artistic content. Lord knows I ain't trying to make no more babies tho, ain't nobody got time for that! Rather, I want to take in my vantage points and pull some sort of relevance from them. If it's not the greater circle of life, a piece of earth's evolution, then let it be something I can hold on to. Let it at least be an impact I've made on someone, somewhere, through some sort of artistic creation.

But all of that is real hard to do. It takes time and dedication, and I guess most of all, it takes talent. Some would say my talents are indeed limited. Ergo, to quote Steven Patrick Morrissey, "For you see, I've got no charm." And yet, I will persevere. If not for the sake of art, for the sake of post modernism, for the sake of weird, then for myself. I'm driven by an urge to create, so I'm hoping somewhere, someone is gonna love/like what I do. Don't worry, I won't hold my breath.