All I need is one mic
It isn't often I think of having more than one life. I take everything as what it is. There isn't anything else mortal to go through besides what just happened, what is happening, and what is about to happen; and, once that is cut off we have only a new beginning... but not a mortal one.
There isn't enough time in the day.
And there simply aren't enough days in a life.
I was thinking of a way to deal with my creative impulses. I become rapidly inspired and go through bursts of vision and feeling... and then it resides into myself to be out-burned by a new star. Not that I'm bored or flighty... I just need to constantly fulfill myself with feelings of anew. There is nothing like the first time. Things become so familiar that it is like they become you... with me, it feels that way when dealing with creativity... and mostly, they do become me.
But, instead of imagining and then trying to realize a life full of shifts and modulations, morphing and corkscrewing into new personas and manifestations of my former vision, I imagined a more defined person when I reminded myself that my biggest and most enduring passion has always and will always be music. There is no need to dwarf that with bigger emphases on new disciplines and performing those maneuvers I just described. What if I could do all of this... then come back three or four more times and be responsible for a new calling... same root perspective and emotion... but a new frame of reference, new individual feelings, new thought process, new people, new location, new experiences, and ultimately a new life emphasis.
Film... science... curating... project leader... small business... adventurer
I mean, take a handful, come out like I described, and go through everything again. New blood, sweat, and tears and new results in something entirely different.
Then sometimes, this makes things seem lackluster. We'd just be going through semesters of life? Not fun... you'd forget to relish it until your last life. We already do a horrible job at being happy and satisfied with each moment in this life. It can get a lot worse. Why do we deserve more? We already can't successfully complete one term...
And that's that. I don't believe that we experience reincarnation. So what we have instead is a notion of balance, a sort of holistic viewpoint of not being anything but yourself. What is yourself? If yourself is a chemical engineer, then that's yourself. If you are a teacher, then there you are. If you are a conceptualizer/listener/synthesizer - then that is what you are - but what is that? That is too abstract. But, I can write up the ways in which it works... I can draw examples of very successful people calling themselves these things... and I believe in time, I can prove that that is all we do anyway. Other things we do? Observe; Excavate; Relay; Report; Facilitate
... but we don't generate and we aren't pillars that stand upon our own feet that we built in our own water that we poured.
So when I say one thing, that is the thing I mean. (At least I always try...) I can prove it and I will, and since it is mine, it is up to me to explain how I best understand; though, my responsibility to make sure it is understood. One thing you cannot do is tell me it doesn't exist since the only thing you know is your life, your own balanced perspective, and you have never been to where I have. So, that's what I mean, thanks for asking Belmont.