Hi, this is my first real entry. Just for people on the outside, I'm doing this for english class. Therefore, I will attempt to break my AIM habbit of using no format or gramer, and I will type as I should. I guess I'll start off by telling a bit about myself. My name is Nathan. I'm 5'11" and have short, brown, and somewhat flowing hair. To match the hair, I have brown eyes which do not require glasses. I hail from High Point North Carolina and weigh a whopping #$@ lbs. The guys generally call me Nate, Nate- Dawg, Nizate, one guy calls me NATO, or my last name (which i'll keep from the eyes of complete strangers by posting it on a public website). The girls... well the girls don't call me at all. I'm still working on that, but I have narrowed it down to bad breath, or my redundant monotonous speach. My background I will keep short and sweet. I'm a Christain and was raised in a Christian home. I was a decent student during grade school, but I'd like to think that I was a better musician. I've been on four great mission trips: one to Mexico, three to Guatemala, and one to Ghana West Africa. I was also the youth praise director in my church for two years, but I enjoyed the playing more than the directing. That's all there is to know about my past and who I am for now. Anything else you will have to learn from close encounters. Sorry, that's just the way it goes. I guess I could start data entry with a pondering though. I think I might do open mic night at Kennedy this Wednesday. The best song I wrote (oh yeah, I write, sing, and play songs on the guitar) so far was for this girl I knew in my hometown. I never gave it to her though. Not because I was chicken, but because I didn't want to make her feel weird. But a song is a song for me. It is the way I vent if I don't have anyone to talk to. Anyways, the song is called Goodbyes and Farewells and I'm really thinking about getting up there in front of all those people and playing it. The only thing is I'm kinda tempermental about my music. I don't usually play it for just anyone because I have a hard time with criticism. But I'm in Nashville. I suppose I'll have to break that habbit if I plan on getting anywhere in the music industry. Speaking of taking criticism; here is where I will throw in a random quote that will usually be a regular occurance in my journal.
"One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide."
-Charles Horton Cooley, Life and the Student (quoteland.com)
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Hey, it's future you, specifically December 16th 2009. I can't believe it's been 6 years since I, you, wrote this.
ReplyDeleteThis is a huge milestone in your life, writing I mean. You don't stop doing it for the next six years, and it really helps out, you'll see.
You are what I would consider "naive" at this point, such a hopeful idealist. Don't get me wrong, I'm just jaded. Things do and don't work out for you. You make a lot of mistakes that you work your way out of but still deal with now that you're on your own.
You make a lot of new valuable friends. Try not to forget them. Sometimes you might feel squeezed off by them, and that's okay. You are unique and you need to realize that your obligations are to be a curious explorer, not to stay still for too long.
You're still a hopeless romantic, but again, jaded. Don't get discouraged though. You are also going to learn how to write and record WAY better songs than Goodbyes and Farewells. Honestly, that song sucks compared to what you will write, but you're still not completely satisfied with it. This is the key to your improvement, so don't hate or let it keep you from creating.
I write from an apartment by the Cumberland River on the far west side of town. You're still single right now, but you don't mind nearly as much as you used to. You've gotten to see the first-hand stresses that come with marriage vicariously through some of your close friends, and you've decided that it's great to just have girls as friends and wait patiently for the right romance.
You get work after college, but nothing is as glorious as you are imagining now. That's okay though. Enjoy these next few years. You are going to change in so many ways before you end up where I am now. It's exciting and challenging and sometimes a bit sad. I won't give too much away. Just enjoy.