I actually fell a tear while reading this post. It made me remember everything good with music. I started to play the violin at age 5 and kept on playing until I was 9, then I got interest for drums and singing instead. I played drums for 12 years and I also joined a school with musical direction since 4th grade and were in a choir for 9 years until I graduated. I went through so much in those years. My choir was really good too so we traveled around to different countries and competed. It was such good years in my life.

When I graduated I lost my reasons to keep on playing. I had plans to join a music university but shit happend (close family member died) and gave me alot of money as heritage so I decided to become a investor and skip that musical university since 95% of everyone that goes there will end up in a dead end anyways. ... That was probably my worst decision in my life. Because without the music I got so depressed and still today I feel dead inside.
Music is so important in life and it was so awesome to go through my school years with music in it.

Great post and I totaly agree!
Sorry if my eng is bad, i've never been a good writer and eng is my 3rd language so.... yeah!

PS. So in short terms what im trying to say is... Music is lifechanging, it's so important in so many different ways and if you are playing and thinking to quit, dont you fkn do it, im a great example for it... keep on going, follow what you feel and want to do even if its a dead end. If you love what to do it won't probably even be a dead end so just do it! If you are a musician and thinking to quit, it's not as easy as you might think... get ready for serious depression without your music in your life!

Here is also a link of my choir that is so dear to me if you might be interested to listen "Venezia in Musica 2011"
Lido di Jesolo, Italien:

// Mestor