Wow!! Time passes by so fast. I long for the days when life was simpler when I was a kid. Time seemed to pass by slower and people hardly looked at clocks. I can still go back in my mind and smell the green fresh grass and the warm breeze hitting my skin as I peddled my bike to the middle of nowhere. Music, poetry, and nature were what made me happy.
Growing up I didn’t even have cable or a phone sometimes and my parents didn’t even own a vehicle but life was good. I would wake up early Saturday mornings and watch my favorite local TV show with an antenna. I would record music with friends and cousins on a small boom box recorder (no microphones...lol...couldn’t afford it), write some parody music just for fun and some poetry and the rest of the day would be spent on reading, writing, and nature bike rides, La Chalupa, basketball, etc. with friends and family in the warm breezy sunny days in Hoopeston, IL. (Where I spent half of my childhood) I remember music used to be for fun now it seems like a business and that isn’t fun. In fact, everything today seems to be a business or about money. We depend so much on technology that we have lost ourselves throughout this process of advancement and it’s not only in music creation but in everyday life. We create the illusion that we are free yet we have too many control tools that control our behaviors, thoughts, and actions. How can we be free if we can’t be ourselves? But then again who are we?
We have been conditioned to believe that we need to make everything about business, money, fame, and power and the way to obtained this is if we conform to the standards of today’s lifestyle of corporate America. Except this lifestyle belief has little to do with talent, passion, education, and dreams but everything to do with looks, money, fame, and power and what you’re willing to do to get there. So basically if you’re talented, educated, and passionate about what you do you’re basically screwed unless you adhere to their standards but that’s only if we conform to their way of thinking. But who are THEY telling us what to think, how to feel, what the people want. I think it’s about time we went back to our roots and take back what belonged to us all along, our dreams, our thoughts, our creativity, and just being happy with who we were before all this technology created by the elite took control of our life. Let’s bring back what’s real!
-Vane D
Growing up I didn’t even have cable or a phone sometimes and my parents didn’t even own a vehicle but life was good. I would wake up early Saturday mornings and watch my favorite local TV show with an antenna. I would record music with friends and cousins on a small boom box recorder (no microphones...lol...couldn’t afford it), write some parody music just for fun and some poetry and the rest of the day would be spent on reading, writing, and nature bike rides, La Chalupa, basketball, etc. with friends and family in the warm breezy sunny days in Hoopeston, IL. (Where I spent half of my childhood) I remember music used to be for fun now it seems like a business and that isn’t fun. In fact, everything today seems to be a business or about money. We depend so much on technology that we have lost ourselves throughout this process of advancement and it’s not only in music creation but in everyday life. We create the illusion that we are free yet we have too many control tools that control our behaviors, thoughts, and actions. How can we be free if we can’t be ourselves? But then again who are we?
We have been conditioned to believe that we need to make everything about business, money, fame, and power and the way to obtained this is if we conform to the standards of today’s lifestyle of corporate America. Except this lifestyle belief has little to do with talent, passion, education, and dreams but everything to do with looks, money, fame, and power and what you’re willing to do to get there. So basically if you’re talented, educated, and passionate about what you do you’re basically screwed unless you adhere to their standards but that’s only if we conform to their way of thinking. But who are THEY telling us what to think, how to feel, what the people want. I think it’s about time we went back to our roots and take back what belonged to us all along, our dreams, our thoughts, our creativity, and just being happy with who we were before all this technology created by the elite took control of our life. Let’s bring back what’s real!
-Vane D
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