I've had a lot of people ask me, how could you tour and go and leave your family and

your friends and leave them at home and be okay with that?

It's a great question.

And usually what I think when someone asks me a question like that is, I think about

soldiers that are deployed because they have a much more noble respect for being away

from the family.

Like me going and playing music isn't as noble as a man or woman saying, I'm deploying

overseas in Afghanistan, there's a big difference in those two.

I think those that are deploying overseas are gone a lot longer than any tour could possibly

be.

It doesn't change the fact that I thought about it a lot, I think about it a lot, I think

about it every time I go out, which hasn't been in a while because of the craziness of

the world, but as I've gotten older and my family has grown and my roots have gotten

deeper in Texas, it occurs to me a lot.

Like, man, I'm leaving, I'm leaving home, what am I leaving behind?

And I have an answer to that, it's multi-step, but I have answers that I feel like really

justify me being gone than anyone that travels for a living could listen to this.

And I think, because I've thought so much about it and I've gotten to digest it so much,

I think anyone could benefit from these thoughts, even if you're just a weekend or you have

to leave for the weekend or you just have to leave on Mondays and Tuesdays and you're

an over-the-road trucker or maybe if you are a soldier and you're listening to this,

I think it could matter to you.

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