Passion: a strong or extravagant fondness, enthusiasm, or desire.

It's amazing how most of these blogs are happening between the hours of 1 am and 4 am. But tonight is no different, I've been up pondering the parts of my life that I adore the most and realized that there are two things that I spend the majority of my day trying to achieve....Women and Music. Through these ponderings I've come to realize that I have only ever really been passionate about two things in life. Music and Women, even from the time I was a little one I've loved women and music with all of my heart and put nothing less into each of them.

There is a reason that I don't date just anyone or join a band with just any Joe schmo...I refuse to accept mediocrity with any part of my life but especially with the two parts that I'm most passionate about. Anyone who does is lessening the value of them in their own lives and not experiencing the full extent that both Music and Love have to offer. This seems to be the same reason why it's not easy getting over either of them when they ebb and flow through my life.

Music is more of a constant but still comes and goes, but when women (love) comes and goes it's much harder because when it's not there, there's an emptiness that can't be filled no matter what. I'm beginning to grow accustom once again to the space between, whether or not it fills again isn't entirely up to me. I do need to be weary though of who is let into the iron gates and even more so who is allowed to venture further in.

This is why I fall back on music, music will always be there in some form or another and when the stars align it's as if the gods themselves are smiling upon me and my love of music the notes almost write themselves.

These passions in my life run so deep that I'm willing to give up everything that others hold so dear just to have a glimmer of a moment with either of them. But that single moment can go on for a lifetime, completely losing oneself, time seems to stop and anything is possible within that one moment.

Revolution

Truth, Beauty, Freedom and Love

Everything in my life has been leading up to these next moments in time. I realize now that the music, movies and performances that have moved me and helped me understand my own involvement in this world are all revolved around one of these four ideas.

Truth is something that too many people have become afraid of. Political correctness has created a fear of speaking one's mind, speaking without censoring, speaking the Truth. A bit of harsh reality, truth, would do this world a bit of good.

Beauty has become something unattainable by the general people because it changes so fast and has become an unhealthy way of life. What people don't understand is that if you work on the beauty within the outside beauty will take shape.

Freedom. Far too many people take for granted what freedoms we do have and then allow many of them to be taken away for a sense, illusion, of security. Take a minute and truly try to understand what "Freedom" means to you. Are you willing to fight for it, even in your everyday life?

Love. What can I say that hasn't already been said. I've given up the greatest love that I may ever know to pursue my dreams in hopes that I might be able to glimmer a small bit of Truth, Beauty, Freedom and Love. I've sacrificed what most people would die to maintain all in hopes of achieving these dreams.

Let there be a light in the end and may Love be contained in a sliver of that spectrum, for me.