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This last year has been a crazy one...got engaged, signed a record deal, moved out, toured the country, and a billion other things. I can honestly say I've never felt so happy in my entire life. I've grown so much as a person, a friend, a mate, a son...I've never felt so fulfilled and loved. It's such an amazing feeling to know I'll be marrying my best friend and that I get to tour the country and make music with my friends for a living.
I've made some really good friends in the past 6 months. I've never come across people like them in the past...they're the most genuine and caring friends I've ever had. I have very few friends, but the few I have are amazing. I feel so accepted and loved by them, and it's weird because all of us are so different from one another but we coexist immaculately. We talk about really deep stuff sometimes, but a second later we'll be talking about poop pains. I'm really going to miss them a ton when I'm out on tour and stuff.
My relationship with my parents has grown a lot this last year as well. They accept me more for who I am, and not necessarily what they envisioned I would be. I think I've always kinda had a mature perspective on things because I grew up around older friends and family, but my maturity has grown to new levels of enlightenment this last year.
I never thought I would be at this place this soon in life. I have so much to learn and so much to love, and that's the beauty of a new year, a new direction, and a new yearning for knowledge.
and I leave you with this...
"How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in life, when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but within oneself? If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox. One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse. There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light." - Barry Lopez
-David
I've made some really good friends in the past 6 months. I've never come across people like them in the past...they're the most genuine and caring friends I've ever had. I have very few friends, but the few I have are amazing. I feel so accepted and loved by them, and it's weird because all of us are so different from one another but we coexist immaculately. We talk about really deep stuff sometimes, but a second later we'll be talking about poop pains. I'm really going to miss them a ton when I'm out on tour and stuff.
My relationship with my parents has grown a lot this last year as well. They accept me more for who I am, and not necessarily what they envisioned I would be. I think I've always kinda had a mature perspective on things because I grew up around older friends and family, but my maturity has grown to new levels of enlightenment this last year.
I never thought I would be at this place this soon in life. I have so much to learn and so much to love, and that's the beauty of a new year, a new direction, and a new yearning for knowledge.
and I leave you with this...
"How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in life, when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but within oneself? If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox. One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse. There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light." - Barry Lopez
-David