Alittle discouraged

I know you are thinking "Already Casie?". Hear me out. You know those few things you count on when all is going wrong, those things you know you are good at and no matter how bad things are, you still have something to hold on to.

Well, today I was going through some of my songs and things were not clicking for me. Either I was too tense or just wasn’t focusing on my music. Then I go on and listen to covers on Youtube…now it is usually pretty easy to find some entertaining performers. However, I ran into some pretty good singers.

Of course, I start comparing myself. Thinking I am behind times and just don’t measure up. This is a bad thing to do. Not smart Casie. I couldn’t take myself away from the computer. After feeling a little down, I decided to sing through some of my own originals only to find myself not enjoying it at all.

Lesson: don’t compare yourself to other musicians. Learn from them, enjoy what they do and remember, they aren’t you and can’t do the things YOU do well. Ok, got my inspirational Oprah moment out of the way.

After taking a break, I chatted with my colleagues from Vietnam who work at a girls shelter I interned at a couple of summers ago. I told them about my myspace and they listened to my songs. It was an exciting moment for me really. I got to share what I love with people I care about.

Lesson: there will always be someone doing something better than you, looking prettier than you, acting cuter than you, eating healthier than you, becoming more talented than you who also recycle and walk the elderly lady across the street every morning but what makes life so very interesting are the things that matter, those moments shared between you, song and people. They matter.

This is why I do what I do.

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C