"Leaks" or the anxiety of feeling alive, is the musician's new book James rhodes, which you have on sale since November 18.
It is an autobiographical book, in which James Rhodes, in addition to talking about music obviously, talks about his pain, his anguish and how to continue living despite it. Next, I leave you with the synopsis of it and with some phrases that I have read from him that have caught my attention.
Synopsis of the book
For many of us with depression or anxiety, the mere act of resistance, of appearing "normal," is daunting, painful, and at the same time heroic.
Getting out of bed, taking the kids to school, going to work, preparing something to eat… All of this can be an incredible achievement for those who have to exert superhuman effort just to stay on their feet. How can you move on? How do you do what you do, day after day, according to the idea that people have of you and how society expects you to do it, when what you really want is to hide and disappear?
En "Leaks", James Rhodes tries to figure out how to make the unbearable bearable in the most unimaginable situations. Through five months of grueling music touring, performing in front of thousands of people and to the incessant company of the torturing voices in his head, James is left with no choice but to deal with a wild and recessed mind.
Fortunately, he still has the music, always. Bach, Chopin, Beethoven ... His Holy Grail, his survival mechanism. Only that.
These are important and necessary memories. About coping with the routine while feeling unable to escape the madness. On not setting the bar for happiness too high. About accepting that life is something imperfect and turbulent.
James Rhodes explores the myths surrounding depression, anxiety and stress (the plagues of our society today), breaks them down into a million pieces, and rebuilds them with his signature sense of humor and sensitivity. .
What is the good new? That everything is going to be fine. Only that.
We think that it is a book that can help a lot to people who suffer from depression and that, like James Rhodes, they sometimes see no "escape" from that suffering. It is edited by Blackie booksHas 288 pages and a price of $19,90.
Highly recommended!
James Rhodes quotes
And as I said at the beginning, I leave you with some phrases of the musician that have caught my attention. Some because of their harshness, others because of the sadness of their reality ...
- “Music is the drug of choice for teenagers around the world. Provides comfort, wisdom, hope, and warmth; It has been doing this for thousands of years. It is medicine for the soul ”.
- «My son was and continues to be a miracle. I will not experience anything in life that can be compared to the incandescent atomic bomb of love that exploded when he was born.
- In any twenty-four hour period there is no worse time than four in the morning. The truth is that the time between 3:30 and 4:30 is fucking shit. "
- «… Stand up and go out into the world. Knowing that it's going to hurt. That your day is going to be very long ».
- "There are eighty-eight keys on a piano and, within them, a whole universe."
- "Abuse makes you a survivor for life."
- "Find what you love and let it kill you."
- «Music has saved my life in a very literal way ... It offers company when there is none, understanding when confusion reigns, comfort when anguish is felt, and a pure and uncontaminated energy when what remains is an empty shell of destruction and exhaustion.
Is it true that they say that music saves us? Music and literature, I would add ...