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moam	Date: October 1, 2005 @ 4:42 AM This is good and this is also bad... I have gotten to the point where music is how I live my life. I seriously am obsessed and can never think of anything else besides releasing more songs. I am sooo anti-social now because I would rather be working on an aggressive, evil song than hanging out with people I know or am friends with. Usually some one of the only things I enjoy talking about with a few people I know is my music. I am sooo obsessed that it brings me down that I most likely WON'T be able to do this for a living. I have been taking music SOO seriously and that's not a good thing, considering I probably won't get it heard by as many people as I would like to. I can honestly say, I put MUSIC before school. What the fuck is wrong with me? Sometimes I wish I were just like a normal person with normal hobbies who did social things like go party, meet people...etc. But not me. I mean, don't get me wrong, I am damn proud of my talents and I listen to my own music all the time, as well as show it off. But I feel like from this past year I have gone nowhere but dig myself a deeper hole that I will never get out of. I don't know... I guess I just wish I could make this my career somehow. Or atleast do something LIKE this... Anywho, life sucks. Anyone else similar to me? Do you get that involved with the music you make? This could be an interesting topic.
hate9wicket	Date: October 1, 2005 @ 8:16 AM I wanted to make music my life, too, but, as a student studying Music Ed eons ago, I found much more interest in the "social" nature of college life. So instead of practicing, studying, sitting at a piano, I let beer and people I thought were friends rule my daily existance. Somehow convincing myself the professors were out to remove "soul" from music and replace it with "theory" was a real convienant ratialization. I remember going into a sightsinging exam w/ my theory prof., totally unprepared, getting called on it, which made me weep in front of him, and pretty much leading me to leave school. My advice moam is, I you love it, do it, but don't let it rule you. Find balance. Get some friends you can jam with and hang with. Have fun but remember your priorities. Nothing is wrong with you, but, if you do nothing but music and school, one or the other will burn out. I don't want you to get sick of the thing that gives you the most pleasure. I hope I've helped, I never told anyone about that exam, I feel better.
zedsalt	Date: October 1, 2005 @ 11:55 AM I have to wonder sometimes if our obsession developed, leading to behavior that's obsessive... OR ...we were in the process of becoming more obsessive, and we were lucky enough to have a natural interest in music there to fixate on.
kingo	Date: October 1, 2005 @ 1:33 PM Hehehe... Zed, I wonder exactly that same thing all the time. And I'm almost certain that, in my case, it's the latter.
GeneHilbert	Date: October 1, 2005 @ 2:04 PM It's a curse......... run! run! my friends save yourself, your family, your friends. Before you too are consumed by this vile and heartless entity...... I implore you - stop now.... before it too late........ You're still here..... too late now....... poor bastards....
gothian	Date: October 1, 2005 @ 3:02 PM Music is the most important thing in my life, but it is not my life. Don't worry moan, I was in a situation like that too, I'm very anti-social and so on, but with the band I've been able to meet a lot of new people that have the same interests I have.... I don't have new friends, because I'm not like that, but I get to talk and deal with a lot of people. Just be yourself, be natural, whatever works for you, you don't have to be like the 99% of world population, the problem would be if you weren't happy being yourself, but thats another story.

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