Hurts like it should

So i feel like a one string banjo, every post is all about keep it simple, work hard, life's not so bad, keep friends close.

Well what about the times when you feel lonely sitting among friends? For those that find life hard and complicated wishing they could turn back time to try it again? For the people who no matter what they do seem to get it wrong and never measure up?

Well from the guy who repeated over and over the concept of pushing through comes a little bit of country style understanding and emotion.

Now even the best of us fall to the pressure and pains in life, some of us grab a bottle and like a liquid eraser start in on the feelings and memories, some fill up the time with non stop work and play and like running across hot coals don't feel more than a twinge, and one of my favorites grabbing the keys and entering the black zone, a place where thoughts and emotions get blurred with the passing scenery like blacking out in a plane crash. The problem with these solutions? The liquid eraser only covers it up for awhile, the coals still burn your feet, and the planes gone down, any way you look at it you end up in pain. Now I'm not here to tell you how to fix problems, there are plenty of people better than myself who have covered that topic, I'm merely here to acknowledge that pain is real, and it strikes whenever it wants, at whatever it wants.

One of my favorite songs by Chris Knight talks about how you can't hang yourself if you don't have enough rope. It also says "i'm thankful for all the things i have and all the things i dont i got dreams that will come true i got some that won't" if i could only accept what will come true and what wont i wouldn't keep trying to hang myself with yarn. All i'm saying is pain comes in small medium big and super sizes, each one costs more than the last and sometimes you don't think you can get through the whole thing, but you're not alone, we've all been there and we'll all be there again. So I hope if nothing else you know I too have things which drag me down, but I keep standin up. Hope you do the same.

anyhow thats all for now, God Bless the U.S.A

Luke