In This Episode: Last night I had one of those nights where things became clearer to me. Loneliness can be a gift not a curse, let me explain.

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TRANSCRIPT

One of my latest anxiety bouts, Russell Crowe from Gladiator. He saw the movie that beautiful, beautiful mind, he would see these friends, and he had schizophrenia. And he thought that maybe at first, they were real people. And then through treatment and all this stuff, and all the, all the bad things that happened to him, he wanted to get rid of these friends.

And finally, at the end of the movie, when he’s maybe in his 50s 60s 70s, he accepted those friends. And he just learned to ignore them. And I feel like sadness and loneliness, in many ways are my friends.

Now I’m not talking about suicide or depression or about any of those conditions that may be more severe or even schizophrenia. I’m talking about that. That creative longing that many of us have, where a lot of beautiful things are birthed. Can dangerous things or or bad things come from loneliness of course. But what I’m talking about is that gift from God called loneliness and sadness, where good things are built where good things are made.

I remember a time now I lived in Colorado where I was dealing with vertigo and a lot of anxiety. And I remember thinking or writing a lot of songs, I wrote maybe 10 1520 songs. I haven’t written that many songs since and that that creativity came out of that sound.