“One night I was layin’ down
I heard Papa talkin’ to Mama.
I heard Papa say, let that boy boogie-woogie.
‘Cause it’s in him and it’s got to come out.
~ John Lee Hooker, “Boogie Chillen”
What’s that about? It’s about doing what you need to do, what you were born to do, what you’re compelled to do, because to do otherwise is death.
It has got to come out. Death may not be physical but it’s certainly death of everything that is truly you. “Resistance defeats us.” (1)
(1) This post is largely paraphrased from Steven Pressfield’s “The War of Art: Winning the Inner Creative Battle”. (It’s an amazingly superb book)
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