listen and go through some major change... future fridays

I am often frustrated by my chosen career path of music with all the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. I catch myself thinking about what I want to be when I grow up because being in music feels like I am still so early in my development although I have been committed to it for 15 years now. I wonder why it is often so much harder than enjoyable, why it doesn't affect more people more readily, why the investment requires so much more energy than the return. But then, I come across something like this, and remember that the special moments are only special because they happen only once in a while...


“Do you think music has the power to change people? Like you listen to a piece and go through some major change inside?”
Oshima nodded.“Sure, that can happen. We have an experience—like a chemical reaction—that transforms something inside us. When we examine ourselves later on, we discover that all the standards we’ve lived by have shot up another notch and the world’s opened up in unexpected ways. Yes, I’ve had that experience. Not often, but it has happened. It’s like falling in love.”

― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore