THE STORY BEHIND Kids Cobras ___________________ Words Sam Wake
Every human being is on a transformational journey. Our lives are like chapter books. When we look back we can see them. There is the chapter when you were poor, the chapter when you were betrayed, the chapter you fell in love, and the chapter you felt like giving up. No two people are the same, but if we look back we discover that we share similar chapters. Kids & Cobras was born on the heels of a dissapointing chapter in my life. I think the title of that specific chapter would be called BURNOUT. I was completely exhausted. My career path had failed by all traditional standards and I was left picking up the shattered pieces of my soul. I was a bit lost, and struggling to bury hatchets. If you have shared this chapter you know all to well how failure can cause you to spiral into an isolated whirlpool of identity crisis. My knee jerk reaction was to point fingers and blame others, but down deep I knew that the crucible of my pain was more about my growth as a person than recieving self-centered-justice from people. Though the ghosts of childhood wounds were visiting me, I was able to keep moving forward. I give a lot of credit to my wife Kelsey for that. Her support and bravery has been unparralleled. She is a yes person, always willing to jump into the frey of life and help. It was the first season of my life I was ready to stop dancing. I was depresed. It was in a rut, and getting out of a rut is hard. Failure tests our wits. How we handle it determines what kind of people we will be. One day my brother got home from delivering pizza and told me something that quite literally changed my life.
