As ever, tonight finds me in rather a reflective mood. I want to talk about friends.
Today, as with so many other days in my life at the moment, I was fortunate enough to spend a fair amount of time with friends. I think all the people I've hung out with today were people that I've met through the college I attend and it struck me once again that a great deal, indeed pretty much all, of the people I spoke to today were people that I value very highly. I've met them all through a mutual passion for music, creativity and expression which it seems to me produces some of the most lovely, genuinely fantastic characters in the world. You music fans and musicians are without doubt my favourite people in all the world.
In caring for music I think we're all bound by something...we all have opinions about music that we base entirely upon how something, as piece of art, makes us feel. At its most basic level I guess we care deeply about how our emotions are effected by a series of tones, melodies beats and words. As such I think this makes us all people who are healthily, and perhaps sometimes not so healthily, in touch with ourselves and sensitive to our emotions and moods.
I'm not so sure where I meant to go with this...I think that's why I'm a songwriter; I just get it out better that way! However, I just wanted to take the time to express to you how grateful I am to have such fantastic friends. You all contribute so much to my life and I learn so many valuable lessons from (and with) you every day. Without you I would never go on unexpected adventures, parties, gigs or trips to the pub. Without you there would be no-one to laugh at my crap jokes, listen to me mumble my dilemmas down the phone or hold my hand when it needed to be held. So many great experiences.
Perhaps this is a bit long, I dunno. It's worth thinking about though isn't it? Mother's Day has just been and gone this last weekend so, just as we remember how much our Mums benefit our lives, I think it's only right and proper that we remember out mates similarly. Is there an international friends day? Is there a day of the year when all wars have to stop for 24 hours? If not then I reckon we should get that idea set in motion...everyone on the Facebook group gets their name on the Nobel Peace Prize if it happens! (If you laughed at that then we're definitely buddies now, no questions asked, no strings attached).
On that note I think I'll leave it there. To my friends, "Thank you. You're ace" and to those I've yet to meet, "I look forward to it". All of you followers and fans of Arcady Bliss count too - we don't want there to be any distance between us and you. We're just regular people making music that we believe in and if it's something that makes your life better then we're doing what we set out to.
Now bugger off, go and hang out with your mates!
Charlie
xxx
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