Yesterday I went for a check up that I have been putting off for a while. Hey, why do I need to? I'm keeping on top of my study, my body has never been better, I am starting to get some local recognition for my hobbies and brushing off girls throwing themselves at me as I enjoy a large social circle.
It was an innocuous check-up. I thought I'd be in, screened and given the all clear to play in a local sporting competition this weekend. I did not. I walked out diagnosed with the rarest of injuries in my neck. Essentially the slightest of knocks now could send me into a wheelchair or even worse - I do not want to consider.
I've made peace. I've said good bye to the sporting pursuits that carried me and relieved my stresses in the darkest of times only to enjoy them now from a far. So many things in life now I have to modify in order to safeguard. I haven't even started on the money I now have to spend, the out of pocket scans that will need to be ordered and the possibility of surgery that will simply post pone the inevitable.
This while I was on cloud 9.
Why do I write this post? In my darkest time SS carried me out and in the darkest time I return. Then I read all the posts posted here and Here I am wracking my head. My biggest advice to all you lucky lads, get off the computer and get out there. Simply put yourselves in those situations - don't think - just throw yourself into any and everything. It is in learning that you gain the experience to grow. You get nothing sitting on the computer and even just sitting there and reading the DJ Bible. You will get no where simply sitting on a computer asking strangers about a girl and lets face it, if you've got to jump online to post a thread about a specific girl, you've wasted 15min of your life you could have gone out with friends, drunkenly asked a friend instead or pulled another chick in the time it took you to refresh and check for replies you ultimately will ignore unless it is the one you want to reinforce the dogged thought you have of how she or you feel for her.
Log off SS for a while. Simply throw yourself into the social scene, go out with friends, network, build your career, find a burning passion and pursue it.
It's funny how all these wise words are so driven into you here from the old wise dogs to those whom have discovered what it means to be a DJ, and yet how many of us simply don't take it readily on board as one should.
It's not until you can stare death in it's face you look back and ask yourself did you really live life to it's fullest
It was an innocuous check-up. I thought I'd be in, screened and given the all clear to play in a local sporting competition this weekend. I did not. I walked out diagnosed with the rarest of injuries in my neck. Essentially the slightest of knocks now could send me into a wheelchair or even worse - I do not want to consider.
I've made peace. I've said good bye to the sporting pursuits that carried me and relieved my stresses in the darkest of times only to enjoy them now from a far. So many things in life now I have to modify in order to safeguard. I haven't even started on the money I now have to spend, the out of pocket scans that will need to be ordered and the possibility of surgery that will simply post pone the inevitable.
This while I was on cloud 9.
Why do I write this post? In my darkest time SS carried me out and in the darkest time I return. Then I read all the posts posted here and Here I am wracking my head. My biggest advice to all you lucky lads, get off the computer and get out there. Simply put yourselves in those situations - don't think - just throw yourself into any and everything. It is in learning that you gain the experience to grow. You get nothing sitting on the computer and even just sitting there and reading the DJ Bible. You will get no where simply sitting on a computer asking strangers about a girl and lets face it, if you've got to jump online to post a thread about a specific girl, you've wasted 15min of your life you could have gone out with friends, drunkenly asked a friend instead or pulled another chick in the time it took you to refresh and check for replies you ultimately will ignore unless it is the one you want to reinforce the dogged thought you have of how she or you feel for her.
Log off SS for a while. Simply throw yourself into the social scene, go out with friends, network, build your career, find a burning passion and pursue it.
It's funny how all these wise words are so driven into you here from the old wise dogs to those whom have discovered what it means to be a DJ, and yet how many of us simply don't take it readily on board as one should.
It's not until you can stare death in it's face you look back and ask yourself did you really live life to it's fullest
