Be Humble - Akira the Don

I’ve been free to do whatever I want

To make the shows I want anywhere I want with whom I want

In any style I want

So I, at first I don’t know any other way

And by now I won’t have it any other way

Life is good

Why settle for less?

Be open to experience

Be willing to try new things

Don’t have a rigid plan except random acts of hospitality without judgment or

fear

Don’t be afraid to wander

Don’t be afraid to eat a bad meal

You know, if you don’t risk the bad meal you’ll never get the magical one

But I think most important

Be humble, b grateful, be humble, b grateful, be humble, be grateful

Be humble, be grateful, be humble, be grateful, be humble, be grateful

Be humble, be grateful, be humble, be grateful, be humble, be grateful

Be humble, be grateful

Before I started traveling I thought that the human race as a whole will turn

on itself at any moment, you know, venal, petty, cruel, arbitrarian

And it’s true that all of those things exist in this world, but

I meet mostly pretty nice people

Doing the best they can, often under very, very difficult conditions

I met a lot of very nice people who’ve done very, very bad things that conflict

with my deeply-held conceptions of justice and sexual equality or acceptable

practice or religious views

There are a lot of gray areas in travel

But I think that on balance the world is filled with people doing the best they

can, you know?

The best they can, you know?

Be humble, be grateful, be humble, be grateful, be humble, be grateful

Be humble, be grateful, be humble, be grateful, be humble, be grateful

Be humble, be grateful, be humble, be grateful

I’ve been fired many times during my cooking career

I was not a particularly good chef

I had a lot of problems at various parts of my career with narcotics

You know, I accepted failure as a chef because I was at various times a bad chef

And even a bad person

These days if I fail it’s because I try to do something and did not succeed

Or I just was just was not able to do what I hoped to do or wanted to do

But I would much rather that

I would much rather fail gloriously than

Not try

I’m not interested in telling stories with competence

I’m looking at telling 'em with some style and originality and some creativity