You can't live the rest of your life carrying a pain because your parents couldn't get along. I choose to spend my life crafting a joy.
Interpretation
Let go of past pains caused by your parents' issues and focus on creating your own happiness.
In this quote, Jason Mraz emphasizes the importance of not allowing the negative experiences from one's childhood, particularly arising from parental conflicts, to dictate or burden one's adult life. He encourages individuals to actively pursue joy and fulfillment, highlighting the power of choice in shaping one's emotional landscape despite past hardships.
In practice
During a counseling session when discussing familial relationships.
There's a certain feeling of giving, a certain feeling of generosity in love songs. When you sing a song of love, you're actually giving something to yourself, too. You're singing and casting these affirmations of love out into the universe.
I think it's important to earn your fan base and not just try to immediately advance to the top. If you ride to the top quickly, you're liable to fall as quickly. Take your time. It's a long journey ahead of you as an artist. There's nowhere that you're supposed to be other than right now living inside of your art.
It's from being melancholy and having my human down experiences that I learn, that I overcome, that I transform - and these realizations I put into song. That's what I choose to put in my backpack and carry with me around the world.
Another year is fast approaching. Go be that starving artist you’re afraid to be. Open up that journal and get poetic finally. Volunteer. Suck it up and travel. You were not born here to work and pay taxes. You were put here to be part of a vast organism to explore and create. Stop putting it off. The world has much more to offer than what’s on 15 televisions at TGI Fridays. Take pictures. Scare people. Shake up the scene. Be the change you want to see in the world.
My life will be the best illustration of all my work.
The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one.
Life is not just something to be endured. It is to be lived in joy, in a fullness without limit (p.82)
Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I lay me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be: Home is the sailor, home from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill.
There is no going back in life. There is no return. No second chance.
I went through the extremes of amazing notoriety and also the dreaded things that you never thought you'd have to live through. Not everything works the way you want it to, but if I sit back and think, 'Am I happy about this?' Yeah. I wouldn't have done anything any better.
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