I had a conversation with a friend last week over dinner. She told me 2 of her friends, in their late 20s and early 30s, recorded an English album and are giving up their jobs to try to pursue a full time career in the local music scene. After which I asked her about what their previous jobs were, and they are considered high paying, high flying career paths. In which, my reaction was
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1st of all, nothing against making recording original material as a career, but as we know, the local music industry is tough as our market size is super small. Even though there is definitely a strong force of musicians/bands doing that over here. It’s a force built by passion, and almost all of them hold day jobs to fuel that passion. And these guys usually start off in their teens or early 20s. Which is why I was kinda surprised when I heard of these 2 guys wanting to give up their existing careers to move into purely concentrating on doing this.
But then, a while later, I thought about it. And it perfectly made sense.
Yes, the going is tough, but we only have one life. It doesn’t matter how early or how late you start to move towards your passion. What matters is actually not the goal, but the actions we make, the things we learn while moving towards that goal. We can control our own destiny, so what if we fail? Move on, but don’t regret it, coz at least when we look back in our older years, we can say, ‘yeaaahhh, I did what I wanted to do’.
And then I realised, eeehhh? that’s also exactly what I thought when I decided to try make music my career, back in 96.
The amazing thing is, I’m still doing it =D in this volatile industry, I won’t know how far it’ll take me, but hey…I took that leap…
So yeaahh, there’s a passion burning in everyone of us, if we truly want something, we’ll find someway to pursue it.
But if you never try, you’ll never know.
