patmonahan:
We had a tough trip from Las Vegas to Spain last week but our stay and travel has been wonderful. The road can be a very difficult place at times. You contend with weather, illness, overwork, over singing, jet lag, lack of sleep, lack of love, over love from crowds. It’s all weird but lovely at…
Pat you are welcome back in Ireland anytime, i really hope you do as you said you would at monday’s concert and come back here again. I am so glad you enjoyed your time here, and also that the dublin concert has been your favourite, it’s certainly my favourite ever concert too. We appreciate that life on tour must be very hard and wierd at times, in ways I cannot claim to understand fully. However you must know how much your fans appreciate that you do this in order to bring your music to us. You pointed out that few people have ‘extra money’ these days…for me, and many others, it means that evenings out are chosen carefully, so a huge thank you to you all for making monday evening so fun, so engaging and so special.
Go raibh mile maith agat,
(A thousand thank you’s)
Have a good rest and be safe the rest of your tour :)
patmonahan:
Although having a skill is incredibly helpful when fulfilling ones visions, it’s the attitude that really makes life what it is meant to be.
Personally, I feel like my skill level in life does increase over time, however, my attitude is better now by leaps and bounds. I really just tripped a…
you sound a lot happier than a few days ago! good :) great points well made
patmonahan:
I read 2 insulting things today and I always seem to take it all so personally.
So, how do YOU not? Its so weird how I can hear a thousand wonderful things and the one negative cripples me. It’s sad really. I mean I know who I am. I know what I’m can be good at and also what I’m not so good at…
Ok… I’ve been reading through some of the other responses to this post and what everyone is saying is true here. As you said yourself, you know who you are, what your strengths and weaknesses are, but the words of others can be so cutting and make it very difficult to bite your tongue when you feel like GRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!! Some people are so small minded that they get their kicks from making someone else feel bad, and I think that they do this in order to make themselves feel better. Something is missing in their own life, they are insecure, jealous and perversely their own esteem is boosted by giving someone else’s a battering.
I have someone like this in my life too… a ‘friend’ who can always make my mood change from really good to dreadful in the space of one bitchy sentence. It’s not just to me either, but for a long time I did feel like I had been singled out and always wondered what it was I had done to make this person behave like they did towards me. Confronting them about it is one way of dealing with it…sometimes it works with the particular person I know. However sometimes it is better to try to remember that you are so much better than the things being said or written about you rather than get drawn into the war of words when they can just keep thrwing the insults. Take the article, or whatever it is, and scrunch it up/tear it up/burn it (all very therapeutic!!). You have to try to remember all of the good stuff you already know about yourself, and that you hear from other people. Do something that makes you happy.
For what it is worth, I do not know you as a person, but you always come across in interviews as very genuine, loyal, a real family man with incredible talent and who deserves all the happiness and success in the world. Your music never fails to get to my emotions, some songs make me feel so happy, some make me feel hopeful, and some make me cry. I am very much looking forward to seeing you and the band perform in Dublin in a few weeks time. Genuinely I hope that we have been able to help make you feel better :).
Hellooooooo
Help! How do I find anyone on this?!!
patmonahan:
I don’t claim to know what’s best for the politics of the world, nor do I really have a strong opinion for the rules and regulations of the armed services, however, when it comes to people communicating with people, maybe its best to keep our opinions to ourselves until asked. My father always…
Very well said :) if only more people thought that way!!!
patmonahan:
Ok I have an idea but I need you guys to love it and or help me figure it out. I want to create an event that I will love, you will have fun AND we can do something good for fellow humans, mostly children.
So, my idea is that, being a runner, I should host 10K’s all over the planet to raise…
great idea! how about traintrax? let me think of some ideasfor how this could work…
hi
hi all…just getting used to this thing…:) hope everyone is good
