I am taking my time off from this industry even though I’ve been in it for less than a year. It was short but a badass experience. Some people says that I’m still on the tip of an iceberg I haven’t seen the entirety of it yet. Yes that’s true, but hey, just like life, DJing has its own season. It comes and goes– and it’s not yet probably for me…for now.
Don’t get me wrong, I had so much fun and I owe it big time to the people who gave me countless of chances to do better and numerous gigs to prove myself on stage. I may no longer be the person behind the deck when I go to bars and clubs in the future, but I’m pretty sure I would still find myself counting beats in every song that I listen and searching for great music would probably occur to me once in a while.
Values and priorities change as we grow, and DJing is no longer in the line of my aspirations in life. I genuinely pursued a passion and it hurts that it’s the one that I had to give up. But even though I didn’t achieve the conventional definition of “success” in that passion, I gained self knowledge that continues to help me work towards other goals more efficiently. I learned how to better examine my motivations, and was thereby able to better identify what I should focus my time and energy on.
This realization helped me clarify my values and preferences– I value my health, having a (somewhat) normal sleep schedule, and having weekends/evenings free to spend with friends and family.
I don’t view my experience with DJing as a failure, but rather an invaluable time of learning and personal growth. Of course, there are goals I abandoned, but we are human and sometimes our priorities shift for the better. I still have a decent amount of this passion left and I love imagining myself at home as if I’m performing like I used to. Music is still and always will be a dominant force in my life,. This passion — my side hustle income has diminished, but my health, happiness, and focus is at an all time high.
It ends…for now.
But we all know that passion never ends.
It grows.
