Vince Bell

Vince is a singer and a Grammy award-winning songwriter, as well as a playwright and author.

If today were my last day on Earth and I could share 500 words of brilliance with the world, here are the important things I'd want to pass along to others...

Despite conventional wisdom and in spite of everything, notwithstanding the advice of a good friend or close relation, aside from the normality of the day, regardless of how someone else would do it and in spite of the fact that you have never done anything like it before, regardless of who's looking over your shoulder, or what the manual says, or how you see others try to do it, even though it might rub someone or some group the wrong way, even if it appears bleak, or you honestly don't think you can, without regard for comfort, come what may, irrespective of the monotony, whatever the cost to you personally, without consideration of the effort, no matter the expense, even with the crowd against you, though it sounds absurd and although it may be horribly circuitous in the face of desperation, despite the grievous, grim, or grisly, even if it gives the impression of being foolish, however bad it may look, without regard to who notices, despite the fact that it gives the impression of being terribly ill-fated, against the odds, against the strongest winds, against your better judgment, although it may be frowned on, in the absence of logic, despite advisability or defying common sense, for all the practicality of the professionals or the politicians or the preachers or whatever powers may be, no matter it be forbidden, however helter-skelter or incautious it might appear, despite another's truth, without consideration it might take more time than you can imagine, in spite of the fact that you might have to do it all by yourself and live with the deafening quiet

don't...give...up.