Rocked by the Peppers.

A du du du, a da da da, no this is not a song I want to talk about, but there was something that happened to me recently that totally changed my perspective on music. It was a concert I watched on youtube featuring the Red Hot Chilly Peppers. My mind was literally blown away as I perceived the talent for the very first time of a band that has a really bad reputation and is no longer popular. Back in the last century here were many bands that shaped the culture, some are still around but for the most part they have fallen into oblivion. There was a very real delusion that I grew up believing and that was if you had the dream you could make it, I also believed you needed talent but to train and practise and learn etc. was not part of my dream because I believed that if something came natural to you so would the fulfilment of that dream. My apologies to all those musicians out there who have been spending half their lives or more training for the fulfilment of your dreams.

There is a kind of quiet peacefulness that comes with accepting your limitations and not striving to perfect something, when you have experienced the completion of your own talent cycle...old age.
For all you 19 and up who still believe you can accomplish something great with your talent, never forget that it usually is the genius inside you if there is one who will finally get recognised, not because you are great, but despite it.

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