Alright, cool. So, I think this is going to be Monday 6th of January 2024 and the title of today's reflection is going to be Balancing Life and Art. There is no balance. There is no balance. Like, art is basically ramped all the way up to one part and then basically life is ramped all the
way to that part. There's effectively no balance. The only balance that I can achieve is the amount of time that I dedicate to each kind of like aspect of whatever it is that we're talking about here. So in this aspect we're talking about life and art. And I can definitely dedicate, I can definitely aim, and I can definitely hope to, and I can definitely target
key areas to effectively focus on when it comes to life and art. But like literally life has got a mind and a heart of its own and music, right, which is kind of like the word for art really because I'm a rap artist, I'm a musician, that's the kind of art that I do. It has a life of its own, like literally, and music doesn't care about life, life does not care about music. So there is no balancing act. Like you know, you can try your very best, I try my best and believe me, I will kind of like find ways to probably arrive
kind of like a position where I have like you know the optimum, like the most optimum setting or the most optimum performance when it comes to my attempt to balance in my life and my art or my life and my music but there is no balance like everything is all ramped up to oblivion like you know everything is super busy on one end and it's super busy on the other end and you just have to find a way to make it work you can make it work if you're really really clever you can put a system in place where you delegate and you were you know you know assign people to do to do with
certain things but it's always going to be busy always going to be hectic there's always going to be more to do there is no balance the only kind of like a peace that you can get is when you find serenity within the chaos, serenity within the storm. Like there is no such thing as balance, there's just contentment and accepting and just being happy with sitting in this place of kind of like discomfort. I was going to talk about something but I kind of like forgot what it was but it was really, really
important. It was really biting me, I really wanted to talk about it so I really don't want it to let me go but it had something to do with kind of like, you know, getting that balance right. And again, I feel like even trying to get a balance right is again, an error in that way, because what are you gonna do when just the demands
are gonna be sky high on either end of the spectrum? It could be with life in general, it could be with music in general. Like, dude, what do I mean? Okay, this is what I said earlier, and I think it's partly to do with like,
what I wanted to remember to say in the first place. But think about it, right? Music, like, you know, when I say that music has got a heart and mind of its own and life has got a mind of its own my life my personal general life where I've got friends and family and commitments and whatever is when they ask me to be places or they ask me to do whatever it
is that they want me to do they don't know and they don't care and they don't understand nor is it there it no no is it their prerogative to know how music works so they're never really gonna understand like why I need to be in certain places, why I need to do certain things. That's never going to happen. Even the people with the most greatest amount of sincerity are only going to have a limited amount of capacity to understand why I need to do the things that I do. And the vice versa, the same thing goes for music.
Music doesn't care about my life, music doesn't care about my crying baby or whatever it is. Music is go, go, go, go, go. I've got a very good artist out there, right? Very good friend of mine. We're good. We're good. And honestly, when I hear him up and when he hits me up it's straight about events. It's straight come to here, come here, come here, come here, come here. There's no expectation but there's no questions asked about how. It's just come. And that's exactly how it works. So when it comes to like balancing life and art, I hate to be pessimistic. There
are things that we can do in place, there are habits that we can develop. But we have to accept that it's going to be hectic. There is going to be no balance. There is going to be no perfect, oh yeah I'm going to stroll here and there, no it's going to be crazy. And for that reason, we should learn how to just basically just learn how to function within that chaos.
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