Choice is more than picking 'x' over 'y.' It is a responsibility to separate the meaningful and the uplifting from the trivial and the disheartening. It is the only tool we have that enables us to go from who we are today to who we want to be tomorrow.
It's disheartening to read the really negative stuff, but at the same time, I know who I am, and I'm comfortable with myself.
I was signed to a record label when I was younger. I was in a group, and I just wasn't - personally, I wasn't ready to get out there. I don't know. It was a pop group. Not like the Spice Girls, but when you don't have any control over anything, it's disheartening.
I went to a private school, and I struggled academically. It was really disheartening to always be considered bad at that.
Other bands gave us lip service, but when it came down to it they kind of backed off. That was a little disheartening. But I respect them. That's their business.
Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.
As a writer, it's disheartening to write books that you pour your soul into and not have them distributed widely enough to find their audience.
I'll be honest, watching the music industry collapse has been demoralizing and disheartening at times.
When you think of what Americans accomplished, building these amazing cities and all the good it's done in the world, it's kind of disheartening to hear so much hatred of America, not just from abroad, but internally.
It's disheartening to write goals from year to year, looking back only to see you are in the same place. You can make so many promises that you get sick of yourself, but what is it that God can't do?