Author: Jaysne
Date: 2008-11-04 15:34
We all hear inspiring stories about people who, despite the odds, work hard at their craft and grow up to triumph over adversity, with many of those stories having to do with musicians like yourself.
While they are indeed inspiring and motivating, the fact is that for every hard-working person who succeeds, there are probably 1000 who are equally as talented (or more so), who work just as hard (or harder) who don't succeed. Life just isn't fair.
So with that in mind, I wouldn't beat myself up about what could have been. I myself went to music school in my mid-30s and for three years worked harder than anyone else at my sax playing. Guess what--many, many people were still better than me. I gave it a fair shot, and still didn't get what I had hoped for. But so what.
It sounds to me like you have a great life--much more than most people, and certainly more than many professional musicians. Be thankful for what you have, and keep practicing. Eventually you will retrieve most of what you had on your clarinet, and that hole in your life will slowly close up. And the better you get, the more groups you'll play with, and you'll start to meet better players--including some who are way better than you ever were, even in your heyday. And that will revive your creative juices, which will be therapy itself.
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