Today is Friday

For the first time in a long time, I am glad today is Friday. Boys & Girls Club has made the week quite long. I have been working full-time over the last couple of weeks. Monday will start another long week. I cannot really complain about my work though.

I have become much better at ping-pong. My appreciation for professional table tennis has grown tremendously. One of my fellow staff members at the club is particularly good and playing him has helped me improve a lot in a short period of time. I am super down with ping-pong.

I have not said anything about music for a while. Writing has still been better than ever. A few things I have found over the last couple of years to be true have helped with this:

• Depression transcends mood alone: being depressed for a long period of time created a huge block in my motivation as well as ability to write, practice, and learn music. I literally did not touch my instrument for weeks to months at a time. Easily the lowest point in my life.
• Exposure yields inspiration: listening to a large variety of music and actively listening regularly is guaranteed to give you some ideas. The search for new music is a good way to stay busy too.
• Solitude yields production: being alone for a long period of time will force you to produce something just because there is nothing else to do. A great way to find a sense of self discipline as well as self truth.
• Being liberated is not just doing what you want, it is truly not caring what other people think. It is not feeling so insecure that you are plagued to mindlessly follow the ebb and flow of trends forever. It is feeling alright all of the time, and realistically knowing that once you truly free yourself, you will not be motivated to impress others, but to appease yourself.