I just had an epiphany that took months!
I would try often to fall back to the old me, and feel extremely terrible when I couldn’t and feel “I’ve lost my way”. But that is me realising, that’s just not me. But, as a force of habit, I’d just fall back into my old patterns. This is huge!
I’m 22, and I often feel, I missed my chance in life. In music for example, I’ve written 1000 sounds, love it, but then never got a chance to take it full-fledged.
I keep comparing myself with some young talented musicians, who had their break very young and feel - That could have been me!
In fact, even in my chart, it’s written - music is his thing! Yet, that didn’t happen and I feel - am I knocking on the wrong door now?
But, I’ve had another journey. That is what I’m doing currently. And, it’s fulfilling in its own unique way, although it never compares to music itself. I mean, music takes over my entire world and reality. It is like my “rose tinted glasses”.
No doubt, it’s what I’d do if I had no constrains what so ever.
Coming back to it, there is no denying, that the chance was missed and regret at 19 years of age is brutal after the kind of childhood I had.
In fact, even though I have RMV Vibes, I just don’t have the confidence to run it. Fearing, what if it doesn’t happen. I know I will probably look back and feel, you dummy! You should have run it regardless!
Made some choices that I regret, but I made them under the pressure or impression that - this is what is expected out of me! Not, what does my heart want?
I’ve looked at turning the world upside down and what does my heart want as two different things.
I suppose, that duality hasn’t been integrated and thus, the polarity of my personality, which gets quite draining.
Maybe this is what my ex referred to as Bipolar.
I’m curious, I blamed her so much for the way she would put things across, sometimes extremely rude.
Maybe, that shined light on parts of me that I didn’t know I had - and this got into this intense self development process.
It’s peculiar, just how deep this self development goes.
I feel, although I know I can be whoever I want. Currently, I am the person who goes through tough battles and takes on challenges 100x greater than where I am, grow into that person, then teach.
That teaching part of me is just that, the one that wants to express. To be heard and felt this is the transformation I’m going through, and I’ve gone through. Maybe this is that place where people have listened without judgement, because I have authority.
May be that’s why, this gave me respect in a way that hasn’t occurred through music - which was always met with - What’s the point of music?
Somewhere, I internalised it, and I know just how damaging it has been.
And, there has been trauma bonding with Music at least. The death of my favourite musician, sent me spiralling into a state “He is talking to me! How can I honour him! I need to work hard to be like him!”
It all felt so real. It was like I knew a brother. Someone who spoke to me and mentored me.
Divine? Felt so.
And, there’s this anger that I like to do things with principles but the world is anything but principled.
That, the entire game is rigged against me.