Would you be missed?
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?
That video is phenomenal. I want to have integrity even in obscurity. Thanks for sharing.
Hey man this is Alex Bateman from PCB…i just wanted to let you know that you do inspire me to live a life worthy of God’s praise. It means a lot to me and the other kids when you take time out of you busy schedule to just come and chill with us. I look forward to coming and seeing you play some shows in the near future. Thanks a lot Jake.
Rather interesting. Has few times re-read for this purpose to remember. Thanks for interesting article. Waiting for trackback
okay, is it bad that i agree with everything that you said? Its like you took thoughts right out of my head! This is crazy! I am constantly wondering how people do not get inspired by the things around us! Its like people go trough life just like you said waiting for stuff to happen but what they don’t understand is that its HAPPENING right now!! in front of their very faces! It makes me feel bad for them because they ( and of course I’m generalizing i don’t mean everyone) are missing out! AGH i want to scream at them and tell them to reach out dude take a step out of the norm and try something new, get inspired, get discussed, dude just have some emotion for whats going on instead of waiting for something interesting to happen MAKE IT HAPPEN!!
sorry for rambling
thanks for that great article and the video is awesome!
Brittany
You used the “ooze.” Funny.
Thanks for good article. Hope to see more soon.
I couldent have made the point any clearer than that. Somepeople will still have there own outlooks on this subject.