Looking Out My Back Window #446

Originally posted on Facebook HERE

Well, it’s been a wild ride the past couple weeks. The NAMM Show was great, I met a lot of people, and checked out a lot of musical equipment. I saw some crazy good musicians, too. Flight cancellations on the way home got me back two full days later than planned, which made the few days I had to work during the week even busier than usual. My band Pink Houses The Band is working in a new singer right now, so we have new tunes to learn and practices to get us all up to speed for the coming year, including one today. I buy and sell a lot of musical gear, which also takes time as well. And time is a funny thing, right? One thing I never am these days is bored. I mean, really — we get one life, we have such a short time here — I can’t believe it’s already February for crying out loud — and time speeds up as you age. At my age it’s like playing a 33rpm album at 78 speed. You kids who don’t get that reference go look it up. I like keeping busy, but I do think there’s a point where the busyness creates more stress than it’s worth. I have all kinds of things I’d like to do musically, but I never seem to find the time. I really want to spend more time on physical and mental fitness, too — but.. when? How?… I’d like to slow down the pace at work if I could, but the business just keeps growing even though we stopped advertising years ago. And I still love it, too. And all of that takes time away from my wife and family, too. And in the meantime, there’s time… tick tick ticking away. And every day is one day older. Every moment is one moment older. Every second is one less second left. Man, oh man. Every moment we have can’t be taken for granted. And the mental gymnastics that I go though trying to live my best life is quite a process. Prioritization changes from time to time as needed. If I get disgusted with myself physically, then workouts move up the priority list. I pay more attention to when, why and what I’m eating, I start to meditate more, and look to get in touch with my soul. Ah… yes. This one has been highly neglected for way too long. Because, in many ways we have it backwards, this life we’ve been given. What’s the first thing that gets dropped because we don’t have time? Maybe conscious contact with God as we know him/her? And workouts? And what is life if we’re not well physically and mentally? Maybe it’s time to flip the list again. Because feeling one with the soul, and feeling good with ourselves physically sets the stage for everything else, doesn’t it? I can’t even imagine if I was still drinking and/or using drugs were I’d be at today. There’s good chance I wouldn’t even be alive. In the end, what you spend your time on, who you spend your time with, where you live, what you do for a living… matters. Why waste moments on people, places and things that don’t serve you? We don’t have that luxury. Take a look at what you’re doing every once in a while. What’s eating up your moments. Make sure the time you have is spent doing things that create the best life possible. Every moment counts.