This was back in 2002 when I wrote what the self-described experts called, "his comeback album." It sold over three million records and I won a couple of Grammys so the record company was happy. Having millions of people experience your own personal failures in words and tune can feel like an internal nuclear war. But after a while, what inspired the words, the tunes, the musical arrangements become just another person's experience. You see we are not who we think we are - we are expansions of who we once were, what we once experienced. We respond to life based on our prior experiences, flinch when the hand goes up simply because in the past we should have flinched to protect ourselves, but didn’t know better. We have fears because of prior experiences, not because the future is warning us. We think we learn and sometimes we do learn, but most times we are simply putting up layers to protect ourselves from one feeling or another once again. From another upcoming (no one will read) short story by Freddy Zalta @photo_lab_app #photo_lab_app #shortstory #literature #publishme #infidel #coffee #illstandbyyou #artformysake #zaltaInstagram

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