Ambition Now
In a culture that sometimes mistakes ambition for arrogance, our own self-worth sometimes takes the hit. How many moments of greatness will we miss because of it?
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The following story will sound completely stupid to many of you, and that’s the reason I’m telling it.
Most everyone by now knows the story of how Texas is the Reason broke up in 1997; that’s established folklore at this point. What’s lesser known is that the band, even after we more or less “made up,” talked about staying broken up like it was a matter of principle. It was a romantic idea, which like most of our romantic ideas, was probably cribbed from a Washington D.C. band at some point. But it felt like the right idea at the time. We belonged to a time and a place, we thought. That time had passed.
But then a funny thing happened in 2006. The four of us found ourselves all living in New York City again, for the first time since we broke up. And then the four of us found ourselves at a birthday party for our drummer, Chris Daly. And then, at that party, the four of …