Thoughts

Carpe Diem: Music as Catharsis

Starting today, I’m going to dive into non-Christmas music for a few weeks – for catharsis. Please forgive me.

In the past 7 months, I have gone through a lot. I started this amazing trip on Failure Club. Career wise I’ve launched one of the biggest products of my career, for one of the biggest media companies in the world. With reckless abandon, I’m also on this road towards fulfilling a lifelong dream – in a very public manner. 

However, as wonderful as my life has been. I’ve gone through some really low periods through this journey. I have had my heartbroken by family and friends. I’ve hurt many people I’ve never met. I’ve gone through a breakup, several actually….

I quit a job, despite having received national accolades for my work. I’ve suffered through serious medical illness. I’ve stumbled and crashed into the ground in despair and at times have never felt more alone in my life, but have had to fight my own self to fight for another day towards my dream to pen a world famous Christmas song. 

All of these really tangible emotions, I’ve kept buried, wrapped beneath Christmas songs. Actually – if you listen to certain words or titles in my Christmas music, there are influences of my day in my dailies. 

I have written 70+ Christmas songs in 2 months. I think I can handle a few non-Christmas songs. Let’s try shall we?