My
Life as a Musician
By:
Josh Lewis
Sometimes
I have a hard time keeping track of what happens anymore. The days seem to go
all too fast. Every day, I wake up, wondering how I’m going to wake up and do
something. When I go to school, everything is a haze. I have a hard time
focusing on even the smallest things, and yet I still manage to keep most of my
grades high enough to pass the class.
Life as a high school student is a repetitive and
exhausting one, but it’s nothing compared to the life of the average adult.
Most wake up every morning to go to a job that they do not enjoy. Some people
enjoy what they do, but others would rather do anything else. I strive to do
something with myself other than waiting out my time as a mere worker in an
office cubicle, and although my grades may not reflect it, I try as hard as I
can. My room is littered with staff paper, drumsticks, guitar picks, and
pencils. People ask me what I do for fun, and all I have to do is show them a
picture of my room. Sure, I may be somewhat of a gamer as well, but for the
most part, I’m a musician. No doubt about that.
Writing music is so much harder than it looks. If I’m
being honest, I’ve sometimes wanted to stop, because writing an original melody
and original lyrics to go along with that melody is extremely challenging, but
I never have, nor I ever will. More often than not, a major struggle I have
with writing songs is writer’s block. I hate when I have a melody in my head
but I can’t seem to make lyrics up. It’s strange really, as my first song came
from something someone was going through and I thought about that, but other
than that, most of them were just things that popped into my head. My song
“Here with me” came to me while I was out hunting! How amazing the human mind
is, to be sitting in nature thinking about those you care about, only for words
to appear into your head, forming an entire song! Even my latest song,
“Hiraeth” came from a video explaining the meaning of the word. (Hiraeth
meaning a homesickness for a home to which you cannot return, or that never
was.) Music is a mysterious, yet beautiful tool to bring love into the lives of
so many people. It can be used to create or destroy. It can be a beautiful tool
or a powerful weapon and should be handled with care.
I am proud to call myself a singer, a drummer, a
guitarist, a pianist.
A musician. And although
there are struggles that come with it, knowing that I can have the potential to
change the world one song at a time is very fulfilling and makes everything
worth it.
So while some may be satisfied living an ordinary life at
an ordinary job, I will refuse to be ordinary, and strive to become
extraordinary. Life comes once, and I’m not here to waste it being selfish and
ordinary. I choose to help the world with a gift this world gave to me. This is
how I am and this is how I will be.
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