The last six months have been insane, to say the least. Many aspects of this time were great; others were filled with gut wrenching pain to likes I never thought possible. The good: an amazing journey through France and Spain followed by landing a great new job. The bad: ending a fantastic, albeit tumultuous relationship with the love of my life. Let’s just say that heartbreak is a bitch. It sends relatively sane men off the deep end and into self-destructive whirlwinds of dark and dreary self-analysis, retarded liquor consumption and mental oblivion. Oblivion by definition is the state of being unaware or unconscious of what is happening: they drank themselves into oblivion. Fitting, no?

Looking back, being temporarily fucked out of my mind was the best thing that ever happened to me. It enabled me to reach a state of clarity, a return to my center, so to speak. As stated in the song Jerusalem by Hasidic Jewish reggae singer Matisyahu, “Out of the Darkness Comes Light”. It’s all about returning to your renaissance - focusing on what’s important. In my case, writing, work, entrepreneurship and the arts.

In the words of Jay-Z, “If you love it, let it fly out it’s cage and if it comes back to you, then fuck it, cause it’s here to stay. An equally inspiring passage, “I’ve got 99 problems but a bitch ain’t one”.