I was waiting to hear that she got lost and if a poor soul hadn't heard of her because of a webapp she had created, they wouldn't have brought her in when her car broke down, saving her from death by exposure.
Yes, it's clear, but I kept expecting to hear about how it literally, and not metaphorically saved your life.
I think if you added the 'creative' (or professional, or something like that) to the title, it would still work quite well and not leave people like me thinking "uh...wait...".
The main point of your article is good, and resonates a lot with my experiences.
And I don't mean saved my life in a hand-wavy, metaphysical way, like "Punk rock saved my life" or "Martha Stewart Every Day Living saved my life". This is not your typical vague Tomato Soup for the Soft-Seller's Soul crap—I can name dates and numbers.
This bit promises a literally life saving--i.e. you would be dead otherwise. The rest of the post is great, but opening with this is a big distraction since the post turns out to be exactly what you promise it isn't.
Please don't underestimate the power of music to change a life. A Perfect Circle's "Judith" was a song that came out as I was leaving an abusive religious group. That, and other music, was part of a major transition in my life, allowing myself to reprogram innate beliefs of my unworthiness as an individual, among other things.
Leaving that religious group, quite literally, saved my life as I was on a track to suicide. Punk music did the same to many in that generation.
> A Perfect Circle's "Judith" was a song that came out as I was leaving an abusive religious group.
May I recommend the song "Wings for Marie, part 2" by Tool? The lead singer of Tool and A Perfect Circle is the same fellow, and it's a song with a similar theme. I don't listen to much Tool any more, but I did check out the new album a couple years ago as I was a fan when I was younger. Not as good as Lateralus or Aenima in my opinion, but the track Wings part 2 was really really good.
Yeah, but 10,000 days came out years later. :) I was at the Coachella concert days before it was officially released. (Not to mention the Phoenix concert where he was hit by a water bottle thrown from off stage.)
