Thanks!
I feel like a lot of the pain in the world today is from people being forced into an existence they had no say in, we have very little agency in what type of life we can live, it has mostly all been decided by people who lived long before we were even born.
This is one of the concrete thoughts I struggle with when I play with the thought of ceasing to exist. I wish I had the motivation to instead think: "in that case, I'm going to be the one to change this rotten existence!!!" Etc. ๐คฃ
Aww cool! I actually studied at a music programme in highschool! I had been playing classical piano for eight years at the time, and my parents thought it would be a waste to... waste all that effort. I changed major to song and electric guitar during my second year, only to end up quitting focusing on performance all together and instead learn compositiong and arrangement. I am currently looking for a vocal trainer who also sings jazz, because it would be so cool to be able to sing like Frank or - depending on how my gender affirming journey unfolds in the comming years - Diana Panton. And if the singing doesn't work out, I'd like to learn how to play like Joe Pass or like the guitar player in Diana Panton's first album If the Moon Turned Green.
In what capacity do you do music? ๐