The Introduction to the Reintroduction of Jake Smith

I love movies! I love things that inspire. I am capable of finding inspiration in areas that most people might not. It’s hard for me to walk out of a concert, a movie, a conversation without being inspired. Either by how bad what I just watched or listened to was, and how I didn’t want to be like that, or by how much it made me want to get to that level.

I have been wanting to write a post on this topic for some time now and at my last show in Michigan I ran into some friends who had already put my thoughts into a video. Perfect!!!

My friend Jason even went as far as to say he was tired of hearing people get upset by the fact that nobody noticed or said anything when that person wasn’t around for a few days, weeks, months. He said maybe your presence was just not missed. Maybe your story is so dull that it didn’t even register that you were gone. He went on to say if your life was a movie how long would it take before people were asking for their money back? Yikes!!

I just got engaged!! It was perfect. The sun was going down with the Manhattan skyline in the background, while we were walking across the brooklyn bridge. In my head I thought I saw white doves flying in slow motion behind us and every taxi that passed was playing our favorite song on the radio. I want to love like this! Like an epic movie! I want to love with the same kind of weight of love before people started to know everything about the way the world worked. I want my future wife to know that there is nothing routine, expected, or taken for granted about what it means to me to get to love her. I want this to ooze over into my day to day life. I think it is the way we were wired and yet we are told every minute, of every day, by every different avenue otherwise. I think we are all living to get to some far off certain moment and are forgetting the awesomeness of life RIGHT NOW! This sort of story is in our reach and I want to do something with my life that’s worth more than the mundane. I want a story worth living and hearing about. Do you?