Klarinet Archive - Posting 000236.txt from 2003/03

From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
Subj: Re: [kl] anger and jelousy of a southern west virginian music student
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 23:22:00 -0500

On Wed, 05 Mar 2003 23:36:50 +0000, rjbrennan1221@-----.com said:

> Where I live I am good. I am the primo crop, the prodigy, the best!
> Then I step out of my little bubble into another county or state and I
> feel so inferior and angry! I have no idea what level the average
> American 17 year old clarinet student is on, but I think I am lower
> than that. Somebody please enlighten me on what I should be able to do
> so I know where I stand in the clarinet world.

What happened, Rebecca?

> I love clarinet very deeply and I want to play clarinet for a living
> and major in music and be one of the great, but I am really starting
> to have my doubts now.
>
> -Rebecca, just learned she is living a dream, not a reality.

Just one perhaps obvious remark: if you found yourself feeling inferior
and angry at the fact that other people of your age are farther on than
you -- perhaps it was just some one other person on this occasion? --
then it might be worth realising that that feeling, when you encounter
it, can actually be useful to you, if you hold it the right way.

Of course I don't know where that feeling comes from, and probably you
don't either; but it's surely yours, no? And as someone once said,
"Don't knock your 'stuff'. It's all there is between you and nothing!"

That doesn't mean that you should take it too seriously, by the way:-)

Tony
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