A Never Ending Dance (Me & Success)
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I honestly wish I could tell you how this works…
I am, at 48, starting all over again.
Seven years ago, I was homeless and emotionally broken. Some of it was my fault. Some of it was just bad luck.
I was not capable of much, other than watching my life slowly circle the drain.
I’m still not 100%. I’m not sure if I ever will be.
What I am these days is better.
It wasn’t easy, but I eventually got there, with a little help.
A lot of it came from Lynn, my wife. I owe her a debt I cannot even hope to repay.
How do you repay someone who gave you back your life?
Her belief in me gave me the strength to do what I needed to do.
I needed to go back through the wreckage of my life, and put things together. I needed to figure out what happened.
That involved going back into darkness I thought I had left behind.
I spent my life running away from it, often using drink and drugs to escape, as you do.
As terrified as I was, I dived in. I dove deep.
I learned to embrace my darkness.
Eventually I absorbed it, and it became part of me.
I no longer fear it.
I use it to power my dreams and goals.
Once I feared my creativity. I was taught to by the people I trusted and loved.
I’m sure they warned me off a life of creativity thinking they were doing it out of love.
No one needs love like that.
But I put that on me. You should NEVER let anyone take your shine away.
For a while, I felt like 48 was too old, to out of it, too past the sell by date.
What bullshit.
That is forty-eight years of accumulated observation itching to be a story, a screenplay, a song, an invention, an idea.
So this is a rebirth.
This is where the conversation starts.
This is here, and this is now.
Hello…my name is Otis Galloway, and we have a lot to talk about…
