Marriage

Yes Yes, yet another blog about why i don’t want to get married……:P

This time though I am looking at it from the perspective of one of the ways my parents have influenced me.

As i have mentioned in previous blogs I have always admired (and try to emulate) my father’s work ethic (rather unsuccessfully). For as far back as I could remember My father rarely came home before 8pm.

It was not until a few years ago that he finally told me that Most days after work he just stays in his office for an hour to … i guess relax and de-stress… He said he did this because the minute he walked through the door… we all would bombard him with everything that had happened for the day…. and he needed to be mentally prepared after a hard day to be Dad/Husband…………..

I immediately thought.. well here’s a good idea but the thought struck me…….. When does my mother get to de-stress and mentally prepare herself to be Mother/wife…. when does she get her time to unwind after work before dealing with us, and i could not find it.. I don’t know how she did it…..

I then vowed that if i were to get married whomever my wife was to be would need to get her time to ‘unwind’. The problem is that as i have entered the ‘working world’ I find that I like the Idea of working till the wee ours of the morning… the idea of being entirely consumed by my work actually appeals to me…… and a life like that has no place for family……..especially not they way I would want my family to be.

Mediocrity

I have the innate ability to settle for Mediocrity…….
As such i can settle for most things……….

Some say this is bad, Others may think it good
I say, it is what it is Both Good and Bad……..

How well they know us

Just had a talk with my mother that reminded me she knows her children better than almost anyone else on this planet……….
And yet I will never ask them (ie. either of my parents) what they think of me…………

We are who we are meant to be…..

I read a blog today of a friend …….

As she spoke of a particular incident I realized that who we are, our complexities, flaws and ‘perfections’, allows us to be the IDEAL person for what we are called to do………
Mind you, who we are is never the same day to day and we should always try to improve ourselves…. but for each situation we find ourselves…….. WE are are the ones meant to be there………… because there is no one else quite like you or me….. no one.

Bieng a bass……..

A though struck me today……..

Before, when performing on pan (while i was on seconds) I used to be singled out alot as being a good performer…..
This year I was apart of a section that ………

You know what this post was to be about the difference between my time on the seconds section and my time on Bass…..
The difference in expectations and about being apart of an awesome legacy/tradition.

But i wont post it……….

Pin Prick?

I find myself thinking (once again) that my head may be a bit inflated……..