By elviguitarra on Skatehive
Hello, friends of @holos-lotus. My children are very much like me, in many ways. One of them is that they want to help their friends, in everything and all the time. Sometimes, at the expense of their own well-being. And that can't be right. So I told them: we have to get rid of this superhero complex. We can't save everyone. And what I told him, I'm telling you. source I tell you this as someone who has spent thirty years on stage and just as many teaching: there is a very fine line between dedication, as a friend, as a professional, and absurd sacrifice. And I have crossed that line more times than I care to remember. When I started playing professionally, I thought I was indispensable. If a student didn't improve, I felt it was my own failure. If a colleague had a bad day before a concert, I would spend the night awake thinking about how I could have helped them. I reached a point where if someone in the room coughed during my most delicate piece, I'd get angry at myself for somethi