Every time I saw a 15 or 16 year old kid setting the keyboard (or the guitar, or whatever) on fire in one of those YouTube videos or a chance visit to a music shop, a part of me used to sigh out.
It seemed like they have everything - the Talent, the Training, and the Time to really blossom into a superstar. It felt sad to think that I had neither of these three T-s when I was their age - and I still don't. I still can't figure out chords or notes by the ear, cannot play the guitar good enough, doing grade 2 pieces on keyboards and I am already into the fag end of my 20s. I'll be 30, 32 or maybe even 35 before I reach their level...old man...forget the groupies, the parties, the popularity, the teenage superstardom...
The thought used to make me cringe, leave me sad, frustrated...
...until I realized that thanks to the late start, even when I'm old, I'll have something to look forward to, and something to make life worth living when I hit the 30s and the 40s (and the 50s and the 60s and so on and so forth, hopefully!).
And no, I don't believe creativity whithers away as the years go by - I think it's more like fine whiskey rather than juice - matures and gets better with age...and I better be an equipped man then - all nice and warmed up, rather than having been-there-done-that when I was young and cool and gone all rusty/forgotten everything now when I need t the most...
Crisis? What Crisis?? "Midlife" is going to be a new beginning for me, baby \m/
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this is such a positive blog. it brings so much light into my life, fills me with hope. it makes me feel lighter, almost as if i am floating. you are doing a wonderful job in uplifting the spirits of the depressed and the hopeless on our lovely blue planet.
ReplyDeletelove love love this post on midlife (crisis ? what crisis ?!) i am totally with you on this fascination for "getting this done" before a certain age, although, the reasons for my non-belief at age-limits may be vastly different.
ReplyDeleteCheers to you...with a johnny walker (or a whiskey of your choice) :)
:) This one's a PIECE!!.... an AWESOME PIECE!!
ReplyDeleteSoon, you will start cribbing again !..
ReplyDeletelife is a bitch, then we dies - "someone"