2010 vs 2014

About four years ago, I started this blog. I made one post, started another that never even made it passed my drafts and then that was it, I didn't log on anymore.

Now I know why I stopped blogging.... that is if you can really say that I ever actually started. I was an undergraduate fighting my way upstream through the rough currents of conservatory life, I didn't have a lot of extra time and even less extra brain power. But now due to that fact that I am required to blog in one of my graduate classes, I am reminded of what I started those four years ago and why.

A blog that I had all but forgotten about is now right here, staring at me as I click on the link to the class blog. "And you pride yourself on finishing what you start?" it seems to whisper to me. So I went back to see what I had said in my one and only post. As I read my "brilliant" almost 20 year old style, it is both comforting and painful to see who I was then in contrast to who I am now. It is only natural that over the last four years of my life that I would have changed. Now as a second year Masters student, I have a more well rounded perspective then I did then, but I haven't lost my passion for my topic. And unlike my 19 teen year old self that fancied myself quite grown up, I become a little more aware every single day how much I still have to learn. A humbling and somewhat painful reality indeed.

Time is still not something I have a great deal of and when I do have a bit of time, I tend to volunteer it to either my school or my church and then well, there it goes. However, if I have time to read my Facebook newsfeed, which sorry guys, is really actually quite dull and honestly extremely mind numbing, then I ought to have the time to jot down some thoughts on the matters of music.

So, without any fireworks or special announcements, I am back. I am going to use what I started as a place to document what I encounter as a young professional musician in Boston. I might occasionally vent or pat someone (preferably not myself) on the back for a deed well done. I also might at some point dust off the soap box that started this blog in the first place, but at any rate I believe that putting our thoughts and ideas into writing is a beautiful and nobble part of being human. Therefore! I vow to spend a least a little time each month on things more inspiring, such as my blog. Who knows, this might just help me kick my social media addiction once and for all!