05/31/2026
My life and this song had a lot of parallels in May. Seeing my professional and personal friends have huge wins has been invigorating and overwhelmingly deserved. Annoyingly though, I can’t turn off the introspection, and the light of their success has made me very aware of the shadowy pools around my inaction. I’ve written 2 songs for the first time in a LONG time and I think they’re gonna cool, but like the song says
The songs I used to play for fun and joy
Became a metric of what I am worth
More importantly, something my friends seem to have mastered, even just enough to push through to make it happen, is the crux of the song that hits me like a hammer: what if it works out? If it works out, will you be happy? What if I put out a song and it actually gets traction? What if the art they made gets seen and loved? What if the business expansion succeeds and thrives? They’ve shown me success doesn’t have to be a detriment. Time for me to get to it, I guess 🥲