Comments by "RiC David" (@RiC_David) on "Hollywood's Obsession with Ambition" video.

  1. This was how I found peace and wellbeing just over a decade ago, aged 27 - don't worry, I don't still have it now. I was the happiest I'd been as an adult—the highs weren't as high as my early 20s, but there weren't the lows, it was a gentle contentment. I was very spiritual at the time, as my videos from that period will attest (I can't go back and watch them, so this isn't a pitch, I'm borderline mortified), but what brought it tumbling down was —My Zen-like idealism clashing with the worlds of those I reached out to, attempting to mend bridges, who successfully managed to leave me questioning my Bohemian lifestyle —Money. It's hard to opt out of the rat race when the cost of living increases faster than your waged. —Companionship. I'd accepted life as an island, with friends but not lovers, but ultimately I still did want love, and women tend to admire ambition in a man. I have passions, but I don't need the world to hear me sing, so to speak (or literally), but that drive to climb or to put something out there into the world will make you more appealing, so it's hard to feel content not caring about that if it's limiting your opportunities to make romantic and sexual connections. So I'm swimming upstream now, because I think that Sgt. Pepper's Phase version of me in my late 20s was closer to my truest self, but I also accept that I have to get in costume for this performance. Sure, you might find someone who aligns with your feather-in-the-wind spirit, but that doesn't mean they'll just be waiting for you to whisk them away; sometimes those who like solitude as much as you, want to keep it that way. So now I'm just putting out dodgy solo records, but those were some good years.
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