I looked at the TV, then back to my watch, then to the TV, then back to the watch again.
58
59
60!!!
Colie was going through it.
There were tears. Both from her and from me, though for different reasons.
Colie was a cast member on the Real World Denver TV show and she was breaking up with her boyfriend over the phone while a song about the torturous aspects of a love gone bad played in the background.
I was the guy singing that song.
I was also the guy who wrote the song and as such knew that I didn’t get paid for its usage unless it went beyond one minute.
It played for one minute and six seconds… and it made me about $20K.
Not too shabby.
But here’s the thing…
I released the song (“Goodbye”) in 2004.
The show aired in 2007.
I got paid in 2009.
There is no unified starting line for life.
There is no shared timeline.
Life happens at different times for all of us.
Success may not come today but it may come another day…
and possibly be even better.
The saying ‘life is a marathon, not a sprint’ is true but I prefer to think of life as a show…
Lots of costume changes, lots of variety and that joke you told earlier in show may get twice the laughs as a callback.
Just because something isn’t right now, doesn’t mean it’s not right.
Just because something didn’t pay off right away, doesn’t mean it won’t.
Good ideas remain good and sometimes it takes awhile for everyone else to realize it.
Revisit old good ideas. Maybe now is their time?
Never be afraid to keep trying.
Oh… and don’t worry about Colie. She’s fine.
She’s actually now the Chief Growth Officer for the WNBA.
Timing is everything.
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Glad you put comment in photo.
My friend the novelist Maurice Carlos Ruffin says you should keep juggling your balls in the air, because a side project might become your main project at some future time. For us creative people (I use that term generously in my case), that makes a lot of sense.