Michael Jackson couldn’t read sheet music and wasn’t a trained instrumentalist, but he composed like a human multitrack recorder. Instead of writing notes, he 'sang' every part of a song into a tape machine, drums, basslines, guitar riffs, horn stabs, string sections, harmonies,
One under-observed way that life goes wrong is through normalcy. No peaks or lows, just an average life. And that’s the scary part about wasted potential. It can feel comfortable while it’s happening.
Two kinds of people: one will always say “it’s not that bad” just to survive the moment, and the other will admit that it is indeed incredibly bad. You want to be that other person. That honesty is what will spark something and effect change.