Reflecting At Home During COVID-19

It’s crazy to think that a month ago things weren’t the way they are now. I was going to school, training at the hospital, and learning and working on music in my spare time.

Now I’m back at home and no one is sure exactly when we’ll be able to go back to normal. Sure, now I have more time for music and I would have kicked things into high gear- but I didn’t.

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Quite a number of people online have suggested that this time be a period for reflection and to remind ourselves what really matters to us. I whole heartedly agree.

Composing has found a place in my life that I feel comfortable with and it’s not in every spare moment I have. I feel like ever since I put up this website, I tried to create this image online of me being this super ambitious young person trying to hustle it up and become a professional composer.

If I wasn’t mindful about it, everything I made would have been for the sake of trying to be impressive and I would have killed my love for music right then and there. As badly as I want to compose professionally, I won’t recklessly kill my creative spirit for it.

With the days feeling longer, I’m starting to realize that these things really do take time. Maybe this is the universe’s way of teaching me patience.

I have a lot to learn.