moments when you realize you're an artist

And in my case, a musician, more often than not.

I had a very strange and surreal moment yesterday morning.  I realized that I was off the beat - as in not playing on the beat.  In time.  It wasn't a regular beat.

I then abruptly came to a halt in my thinking as I realized that, in fact, I was not living my life in any specific time signature at all, and furthermore, never had.  And this was truly a terrible thing.

And then I pondered where the heck that came from.