Welcome To The Jungle

I am a god in my own thoughts

I always look forward to being alone. On my bike, alone at a bus stop, I can listen to music on my headphones and it's all mine. No one else hears it, it's one of my favorite feelings. Something only meant for your ears, your own background music. I love it. I can choose the music in the movie that is my life, I am also the director, the head character, I wrote the script and can rewrite in whenever I want.

"I am a god in my own thoughts" I choose everything myself, people who bike by are just figurants. They will disappear when I can't see them anymore. They have a life but it isn't in my interest. They're only passing by mine. But at the same time that they are a figurant in your movie you are also in theirs, just a lonely weirdo waiting by the busstop going who knows where. And maybe sometimes you're more than a figurant in someone's life, maybe you're more and you'll never know. Maybe you're an important side character. Only because you passed by and caught someone's interest. They make up a life story for you, something that keeps them up and standing. But you'll never know. Maybe you're someone's best friend in thoughts.

Hate someone? Maybe you changed that person with a thing you yelled, maybe they started thinking and than they found out you were right. But you will never know because it is someone you hate and you won't see that person again. Maybe you brought life to others, or death. And you'll never know.

Humans are capable of so many amazing things. It blows my mind every time, the human brain is so much bigger and greater than you think.

For a musician you are only a figurant, but an important one. Without the figurants buying your albums and coming to your concerts you would not be able to be doing what you're doing. And in the life of those figurants you are more than a figurant even if you just pass by. You're hope, inspiration. You're important in the life of someone that is not important in yours. Writers are the same, it's amazing how much one book can change your life.

Films, books, musicians, the people around you. Everything is an inspiration for your life.

Life is an inspiration.