If my original MIDI workstation were not stolen back in 1998, I would probably still have all that equipment.<\/p>\n
If I still had that equipment, I probably would have been disinclined to write any new music. I had already reached the realization I could never produce the kind of music in my head because my tools were insufficient.<\/p>\n
If I did not write any new music, I probably would have forged ahead in a career as a web developer, and I probably could have eventually forgotten what it’s like to write music.<\/p>\n
If I forgot what it was like to write music, I don’t know how would have ended up.<\/p>\n
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If my original MIDI workstation were not stolen back in 1998, I would not have bought newer, better equipment.<\/p>\n
If I did not buy better, newer equipment, I would not have created music that’s closer to my imagination than previously possible.<\/p>\n
If I did not create music closer to my imagination, I would not have developed a belief that I’m producing some pretty good stuff. Nobody else really has to believe it, but I do.<\/p>\n
If my original MIDI workstation were not stolen back in 1998, I would not be spending time on my eBay trying to hunt down the same model keyboard that was stolen.<\/p>\n
If I were not spending time on eBay, I would not experience the crushing defeat of being outbid.<\/p>\n
If I were not outbid, I would stop hoping someone would post that same model keyboard for immediate purchase.<\/p>\n
If I were not waiting for someone to sell that same keyboard, I would be wishing someone else would make software emulation of that keyboard.<\/p>\n
If I were not trying to hunt down that keyboard, I would stop wishing the burglary had never happened.<\/p>\n
But it did happen. And good things came from it. And bad things still come from it.<\/p>\n
At some point, I’m going to have to let go of the past, and find a way to make the songs which rely on that old piece of equipment to live with new parts.<\/p>\n
If my original MIDI workstation were not stolen back in 1998, too many possibilities could have happened. Or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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