Last night my friend Matt, a professional musician, invited me to a live music concert in the heart of Hollywood. We arrived to thick velvet ropes in a dark alley way. I handed a ten to the large bald man covered in tattoos. We entered into darkness through the thick red curtains that peeled apart.
The next headliners stepped under the red spot lights. They had nearly a dozen of people in thier band, electric instruments, and traditional ones too. It looked like the audience was on stage and the band was on the floor. My roommate dipped out for a moment to catch an important phone call outside.
Here is where it got interesting, The lead singer stepped up wearing an outfit that looked like a mix between Prince and Kanye West. He was a young dark skinned Indian man wearing a jacket that was 2 sizes too big and a huge patterned scarf around his neck.
You can imagine he looked very aspiring rock star, gone retro remix. I wanted to leave ASAP! Matt was tied up on his call for the next 20 minutes, so I stuck around. The speakers blared and BOOM! The song began.
I was stunned!
I had made book cover conclusions about this band before I even heard them play. I watched in full amazement. It was as if God had come down and possessed this lead singer with a fire I instinctively recognized in talented creations. This blew my mind.
I was awe struck. Keep in mind, I didn’t particularly like the style of music played, but the talent factor I could appreciate no matter what the riff. My roommate came in and we split. In the car it dawned on me.
It’s not what you’re doing, but how you’re doing it that matters the most.
For example, I grew up with more art instruction than most. I used to discount drawing lessons thinking, it’s just scribbled on canvas… but movies are cooler! Because it’s moving and you can talk and everyone sees you, etc. Now I realize that movies are just a director telling you to do little clips of scenes that someone else writes if you make it through the subjective auditioning gauntlet, etc…
My Point is that you can look at anything and say “The grass is always greener on the other side.”
But the thing that always remains the same is: You can choose any vocation to channel(like art instruction, drawing lessons, painting lessons, singing, cooking, etc) that “God like talent” into. Each of us holds a personal power that we can learn to express for ourselves. Of course it takes some time to learn the essential skills. The better you become the more freedom you gain in the expression.
