Jon Acuff

I was listening to Colin Hay, who's the lead singer of Men at Work.

Land Down Under was their biggest hit in the 80s.

He has a song called Waiting for My Real Life to Begin.

And I felt like I was in a rut.

And I guess I thought, why don't I just dig it deeper?

and listen to a musical version of it constantly.

And it's a beautifully written song, but it's not helpful in the sense of the main character is just waiting.

Like he's looking over the horizon.

He's waiting for the phone to ring.

He's going to slay the dragon someday.

And every day he gets up and it's like the same exact thing.

And I felt like I was stuck in that own loop in my life.

And so I, yeah, I probably listened to that song hundreds and hundreds of times that year.

I was waiting.

I mean, part of it was I felt like I had ideas worth sharing and I didn't know how to do it.

So I felt like I was waiting for the internet to catch up with what I wanted to say.

Meaning like, I don't have a platform.

I have all these ideas.

I mean, I think my wife once said to me, it's hard living with a writer who isn't writing.

And I think that's true of most crafts.