What do you want to be when you grow up? What is going to be the ultimate purpose of your life? Why do you deserve to exist? These sorts of questions start to occupy our minds when we're very young, and can get twisted up by our minds, and manipulated to scare us into following what seem to be easy paths. It can be a reflex to forget that we have any value, or to misunderstand what it means to "be successful" or "be happy", which many people claim to want.
To the best of my understanding, we don't BECOME successful, or BECOME happy. We can have a series of meaningful successes, or make improvements in our general quality of life, but if circumstance or possessions could make us happy, we'd be orders of magnitude happier than the billions of people that have existed without what we have right now, and that's simply not the case. Instead, many of us spend our lives hoping that the next big job or societal landmark will be the one that puts us over the edge, and will finally make us feel the way we want to feel.
So we go to college, get a job, get married, buy a house, get a promotion, go on vacations, and so on and so on. None of these things will complete you. No person, nor any possession can MAKE you happier or stronger than you are now. The only thing you can change is your trajectory right now. Every day, it's up to us to ask ourselves if we're on a path toward better things. We owe it to each other to honestly assess if we're on track to solving more problems than we've caused. When confronted with monumental problems, it's up to us to analyze them and listen to the part of you that knows everything will turn out ok.
You are enough. You deserve to be alive. You deserve to evolve into more than you could ever possibly dream of, and the only way for us to accomplish that together is by breaking down the boundaries that separate us, and honestly speaking with one another about the real struggles and accomplishments that we experience. We should not depend on each other to feel okay. Instead, we should seek out opportunities to understand and accept each other, and–in doing so–we will learn and become the people we want to become: people who are always improving.
Join me in reflecting on what we can become together. You are not alone.
This album is one of many examples as to why the only Dubstep artist I will still listen to on a regular basis is Varien: Brilliant imagery, excellent composition, wonderfully produced, diverse track styles, in fact, name just about anything about this record, I'm sure you've perfected that too. Codefreq
No chance this is a free album, because this is Alden's greatest work. The songwriting and electronic experimentation mixed with hip hop is really magnificent. The lyrics are a bit preachy for my taste but they don't detract from the bigger picture. Zane Goodell