Trivialities

Nothing is important except the fate of the soul; and literature is only redeemed from an utter triviality, surpassing that of naughts and crosses, (i.e. tic tac toe) by the fact that it describes not the world around us, or the things on the retina of the eye, or the enormous irrelevancy of encyclopaedias (sic), but some condition to which the human spirit can come.

- G.K. Chesterton, Introduction to The Old Curiosity Shop

I wonder if Chesterton would be gracious enough to bless semi-literate songwriting in a similar way? Whatever his conclusion might be, I do. Which I suppose is why I keep sporadically plugging away at it no matter how many internal our external voices tell me that I'm wasting my time on "trivialities". To be fair, there are plenty of voices that encourage me to continue writing. However, they are less fierce and thereby more easily ignored. But over the course of my life thus far I've noticed that the quieter voices are usually the most important ones.