The value of keeping your passions as hobbies
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yeah so i’m i’m really happy with
where where i am personally um and
the kind of space that like music
occupies in my life because i know that
i’ll always have it and i
i can always go to it it’s kind of like
an escape i know that
music will always be a part of my life
even if it’s not necessarily
my job
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i’ve had instruments in my house for my
whole life because my dad plays drums
so i learned how to play the drums just
like with my dad
um when i was like five or something but
really like
around like middle school like eighth
grade that kind of that kind of time
i can’t really explain it i don’t really
know why but i just started to get
interested in music
and started learning i think i learned
like the ukulele first i got like a 20
ukulele off amazon or something so like
finding a passion
it’s pretty natural like you can’t
really force it and i think like a lot
of people have
um like those things that you know you
like
just find yourself going back to it’s
not like
just like picking something because your
friends are doing it or whatever
it’s like you kind of just have to do
what you want to do
personally and if you care about it
yourself
then you’ll know and it’ll be it’ll be
good
the the biggest thing that i like about
music
is playing live that’s definitely what
keeps me coming back
so to speak especially in grapefruit
specifically as like
the lead singer or whatever it’s just
like so fun to be up there like you know
having a great time singing just dancing
like just performing that’s
always a really really great time but
also just like
the like ability to be able to like
express yourself creatively but not
necessarily like
through like words or something like i
think that’s pretty cool because
it’s like a very interesting outlet
because you’re not explicitly like
saying things but you can really convey
a lot of emotion
and stuff so and it’s really cool when
you like are able to like
click as a band and like put put stuff
together that sounds good
so a lot of stuff but yeah those are the
main ones i feel like
there’s like some pressure especially in
high school like if you
have found something that you’re like
really into or you’re really interested
in that you should
pursue that in college or do it as your
career but like
personally i think there’s value in
keeping
something that you’re passionate about
as just a hobby because
it kind of preserves that like aspect of
your like love for it um without having
to put
like pressure on it i think i think it
definitely is good
that i’m not doing it like in college or
trying to do it as my career
um and that’s kind of what went into my
decision to not
do it in college because i think to an
extent if you
add like stress and like deadlines and
like all that into like something that
you’re really passionate about then it
can kind of
take some of the passion away from it so
i like to have music just as something
that i can go to
when i want to and it’s obviously it’s
different for a lot of people like
it works as a profession for a lot of
people but
for me personally i like it as something
that’s kind of like
stress-free you know if you have
something that you’re passionate about
and you’re on the fence about
pursuing it as a career like think about
if you would like it as much
if you had to do it or if you just want
to do it when you want to
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