I realize you cant please everyone.
You must be open to what otherwise may seem to be a detriment to your 'plans'.
It's a lot easier to take pictures if you always have the camera with you.
It's my obligation to take out all the 'wrong' pictures.
You have to pick the right tool for the point you're trying to make and there is no one solution.
You have to let the past successes go, or you'll never be able to see anew.
You have to learn not only from your failures. You must also learn from your successes.
I use music as something from which I obtain some form of - I hate to use the word spiritual - guidance, an awareness of something more than the day-to-day or the petty. I am not reading Emanuel Kant to try to embark on a task of seeing if I can understand myself, what the aesthetic experience is. But I wholeheartedly believe in it, even though I think not too many do nowadays.
We are largely the playthings of our fears. To one, fear of the dark; to another, of physical pain; to a third, of public ridicule; to a fourth, of poverty; to a fifth, of loneliness. . . for all of us, our particular creature waits in ambush.
I suppose I should be happy to be misread; better be that than some of the other things I have become.
I told him about me being a summoner, and what that entailed. At the end of he simply gave a long sigh. “Why couldn’t you simply be an alcoholic like all the other detectives?” I grinned. “Demon summoning has less vomiting!