What I AM and what YOU are in US…

My dear family,

Since last week I’ve been in touch with something really cool that I want to talk to you about. In my last blog I was talking about how we are all united together very powerfully. I’m so amazed to see how people from so many different backgrounds, countries, cultures, ages and education can relate to a music that is true and then open up even more as we all look deeper into what we all are as a group and also as individuals. We get to know each other because we have a common love which is the music but it doesn’t stop there! In fact it’s just a starting point!

A starting point… Alex just came back from Japan filming as the only band member for one of our next projects. He told me it was such a wonderful experience for him personally and he was even more excited about what a positive impact these images will have in the near future. We are all proud of Alex fulfilling his dreams and I started to really observe him getting excited about little things like shoes and vinyls and learning about the Japanese culture.

And then I started to look around more to find out that Ben was starting to restore an old vintage bass in his rare (and late!) spare time… I listened to him talking with so much excitement about how he would find the missing parts and sand this bass body until perfection and then put that color etc…

Do you remember when Jeff, Big Byrd, Alex and Momoka went to San Francisco? They went there with the only purpose in mind to live each minute as a dream coming true… And if I look at myself, I just can’t go one day without thinking of my jewelry project and when I work with my glass artist partner she just can’t stop saying “I love your happy face!” laughing at me as I get excited with every little idea and possibility!

I realize with all of this how what we live as a family, this common dream we share opens up not only a way to touch the impossible all together, but it also helps us find our own personal way in the midst of it! I really think we truly get to know ourselves when we are living with others closely. Why? Because we can either say “wow…I’m the same, I do react like that too, I would have done the same thing… I can just feel what that person is going through…” or “I am definitely not like that, I just don’t know how this person can do this, I would have done the opposite…I don’t understand why this person is feeling like this”. It’s important not to judge others but that doesn’t mean being isolated!!! In fact it’s the opposite, if love brings us together, we can not only accept others but also learn about ourselves through them.

“You share with us all these magnificent things that you live daily… it allows us to keep in touch and stay close to each other, that’s what we call friendship…” -Marlène, CANADA

How do we react when we see happiness around us? Are we jealous? Are we trying to find what’s wrong so we don’t have to think we’re missing something? Or are we sharing the happiness… opening up our own life to see if we could also add to this happiness with our own joys. We can feel joy for many things, a beautiful sunset, a promotion at work, a good mark in school, a successful project. Joy transforms into happiness when we share it with others. That means it is so important for all of us to feed these personal joys and ALSO to share them with others to give life to our own happiness and to be involved in the happiness of those we love.

Someone said one day: “Find your people and you’ll find your purpose”. I do believe in this. The day I found my band, my family here, that day I knew I would have a safe ground to heal, a cheerful home to grow and a supportive strong love to help me find my way, my purpose. We’ve had many amazing discussions the band together, simple friendly talks about what we see, what we dream of and how we plan to accomplish our next big craziness. But for me the most amazing part about these discussions is that I saw how we were all equal yet so different, all excited yet for different reasons, all talented yet in many different things, all enjoying our common friendship and dream yet looking at it from a different perspective and living it in such a different way… I found in that discovery such freedom…

Do we all have to talk like Alex or jump like Ben or act like Jeff or groove like Moose or like the same things as Sef to be united with the Your Favorite Enemies family? no.
We believe in the commUNITY.
Unique and united…

Pushing toward a common goal and sharing common love AND adding to it our own individual color, our own individual crazy dreams, our own individual life… And when times are harder, the joys of others will help us still touch happiness…

And when we’re at our height of success and strength, others will allow us to taste it fully, to make it worth even more by making it so much more meaningful.

There is US and and there is YOU and there is ME and there is this miracle that unites YOU and ME and US and makes ALL things possible.

-Miss Isabel