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www.johndetitta.com this is a blog about my story
My Story
by John De Titta
My name is John DeTitta and this is my story as of today.. seems to me things change as quickly as the wind around here and you just have to follow the direction you are pushed to the best of your ability. It took me a while to realize we are always in a state of constant growth as individuals as long as we never commit ourselves to being what we are today.
What? yea, I know it didn't make sense to me either. Think of this way, you are constantly growing as an individual, that growth at anytime can be things that happen that are good and things that happen that don't work out they way you wanted them to be. Usually, there are people involved with you at those times and at those times, it how they see you and want to remember you, and you have the choice to allow them to or continue your growth, it really is that simple.
It's hard to understand sometimes, that everything in the world is on a growth pattern, an evolution and the moment you stop and determine that this is what I am you never get to understand what you are truly made to be. The hope of knowing that things will always change.
I learned this over time, fighting at times with the pattern of growth I was on since it wasn't all the time what I thought I should be, then I realized that those struggles I went through were simple God's training for what I was to become and I realize still, I have much more growth ahead and look forward to what I will become.
I have people now who want to constantly remind me of mistakes made in my life, I recognize them, I am sorry for them but at the same time I have loyal, dedicated people around constantly pushing me to what they feel I am capable of being. Which person would you follow?
I am sure you have this in your own life as well, we all do.
At this point in my life, I am finishing up a story I had written back in 2002 about my life as a entrepreneur, I use that turn loosely, I was actually a creative person who was using business ideas to channel my constant desire to create something new. It would much easier to take that creativity and apply it to my piano and build on a note, to make a chord to make a song as I was a musician at heart and now I have taken my experience, my journey and lesson to help others who seek to utilize the God given talents of creativity and channel it with help, to the arts.
SCENE ONE: NEW YORK CITY - MADISON AVENUE
Characters: Big Lawyers, Venture Capitalists, Big Time Producers
& John De Titta
I have met a life of people in my life and listened to many stories. People who have traveled abroad, worked in the military, created vast business empires, wrote novels, screenplays and music, people who have conquered and overcome illnesses or odds and triumphed through sheer will and determination. Many of these people had lives that would fit well at any theatre in the country and at this moment, seemed to put me more out of place in my current surroundings.
I was leaning back in the ridiculous overpriced black designer chair
starring at the greek style walls with a detoured mind. I was trying to
figure out the reality of it all. An important planning meeting was going
on and I was the focus of it. Every once in a while when I heard my
name called I would acknowledge with a confident smile or nod not
hearing anything they were saying.
It was 2005, the location was Madison Avenue NYC in a Big Venture
Capitalist Board Room. The people in the room include a Movie
Producer who's films were some of my favorites, GOODFELLAS,
CASINO, RAGING BULL and a bunch of other high powered
"industry" people, investors, lawyers etc. They all got their because of
me and a movie I wrote called Manic Ride.
It seems they wanted to make my project into a feature film.
A feature film about my life? It sounded like a joke, what the hell had I done? Sure I had worked at times with some of the biggest companies around and many partnered with me on my ventures. I had gotten a lot of recognition nationally and worldwide at times but nothing sustained. In fact, at this moment in this big office I was still a few months behind on the rent, my wife was upset because she couldn't get any food for the week and I was trying to figure if what I could eat in NYC and still have enough money for bus fair back to Jersey. Good thing hot dogs are only a $1.00.
Really not the story films are made of.
I had tried to make people laugh and enjoy life as much as possible, yet I still managed to aggravate, annoy, confuse and piss off a lot of them along the way.Who wants to watch that? I had to stop my thoughts and listen to them everyone once in a while as they planned for the production. I realized I had written the script and 90% of it was true except the ending.
john detitta
I am a musician who used creativity to create things... and not on the piano which I enjoy...
Here is link to my story: www.johndetitta.com