I am going to be really honest now. All my life, I wanted to be a musician and study in a music college. And my wish came true. But as soon as I entered into this music world, from K.M to ICOM and now even at Berklee, I have noticed something. I started realising that there is so much competition.

I have met a lot of musicians who are so talented, and I always used to wonder whether I would reach that level. At times I used to wonder whether I am even at the right place. Soon we all musicians start having feelings of jealousy and that gets us the feeling of hate, and we start thinking of overthrowing that person. We start competing.

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I used to feel jealous of other musicians too, and at times wished of overthrowing them too. Until I realized that it gives us a negative impact. These feelings of jealousy is making us turn into something we are not. To tell the truth, musicians are forgetting one of the main things.

All musicians have one goal, they all have the same dream: to become a musician. Why are people forgetting that? Why are we so focused on overthrowing another musician when we all have the same dream? Musicians are forgetting that the fact we have a similar dream is giving us a huge chance for us all to make good friends. Musicians have a chance to share their dreams and their talent with one another. But sadly, I am seeing musicians making more enemies than friends.

Here's a message I want to give all the musicians:- Yes in life you will meet a lot of people who are talented and as good as you are, but don't let that make you feel inferior. Please try your best, work hard! But don't let that get to you! Don't let the feelings of jealousy and competition get to you and turn into a negative person! Life is giving an opportunity to meet people as well as to spread love and to unite all musicians! Sadly you are missing that! Wouldn't it be nice to know someone who has the same dream as yours? Then please stop this negativity! Please realise that life is giving you a chance to mingle with people who have similar dreams! Mainly, don't let those negative feelings let you forget your dream of being a musician!

After realizing all these, I stopped feeling jealous! I stopped thinking of competition! I am only focusing on working hard to become a good musician! I also made friends genuinely, without thinking that they are as talented and as good as me, and with the feeling that we are musicians who have a similar dream! And you know what, it felt really good!

I know a lot of people would say that this is how the industry is and it will never change! But I believe we can change this! We can try and change these feelings of competition!
Let's do this!