your question:

07/16/2022

Have you ever taken it personally if/when a colleague chooses another bass player for a gig (assuming availability in your schedule wasn’t the reason)? I suspect you’ll answer something along the lines that this is a petty reaction, and I would agree. What I’m asking is, have you ever caught yourself being petty in this way? Not that there’s anything wrong with it, we’re only human!
Thanks

my answer:

Yes, I certainly have, and then I check myself. Jealousy is pretty natural it seems, especially if you’re a hardcore Capitalist, as we all are in the Western world. But one has to remember that you can’t always have everything, nor do you need it, nor do you even have space for it.