My turn to decide.

That voice in our head, we all have it. Some of you out there in the world are good at telling it to shut the hell up.  I never was.

Truth is that for most of my life I've allowed that voice to make me doubt, second guess, and undermine myself. It's the voice that would whisper that things weren't good enough, that my best wasn't enough, and that falling short was okay, so long as I had a joke to fall back on. Weird that the voice never showed up to tell me that things were great, only that my failure was not only predictable, but inevitable.

Not anymore.

Don't ask me how, and it's taken a long time, but I've found a way to quiet the voice.  I sleep better. I care about things that matter, and much less about what doesn't, and I'm better at making that distinction.

So, this song is for that voice. You might remember Sara Barielles from a couple of years ago, and her song, Love Song. This is one of the more interesting music videos I've seen in a while, and not just because Sara is so striking.



The years of letting a crazy man who looks like me take the controls are over. If I want to take charge of my life again, I have to begin by telling the voice that I'm not even listening anymore. Then I have to remember how to make choices, now that I'm making them for myself for the first time in a long time.