10,000 Hours

A 'few' years back, I was lucky enough to work on a 48-hour film project with an awesome group of folks. I was a semi-aspiring-ish singer/songwriter at the time, and I offered to write a song for the movie, titled The Elusive Plexipus - a nice buddy-comedy-road-trip-gone-awry-hunting-for-bugs movie...you know, typical Michael Bay fodder. During the process, sitting with the ladies slapping together costumes on the back porch, I stated emphatically that I would under no circumstances use the word 'butterfly' in the song. 24 hours later, the song Chasing Butterflies was completed.  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ They dropped the award for Best Original Song that year, so no hardware, but I got to make a wicked sweet cameo in the flick. Sadly, I was never able to top the success of the single, and resigned to a career in software.  The song has been in my head a lot lately, as it seems awfully fitting for what I'm going through. Buried the lede with a shovel here, but I've decid