Serena Dyer: Don’t Die with Your Music Still in You
Sometimes I think that having very aware parents that taught me that my thoughts create my reality, made me feel guilty at times, because I knew better. And I felt that if you know better you should do better and I wasn’t really capable at that time of doing better. I was enjoying being depressed and being stuck and I was not really willing to get myself out of it and I wanted other people to pull me out.
I think that a lot of people struggle with that but for me ‘knowing that I was creating it’ made it even harder to stop.
DIRK TERPSTRA: What would you want to tell teenagers about finding their purpose?
Serena Dyer: You don’t have to necessarily quit your job. If you work at a pizza restaurant, but you really want to write music, I would say “You don’t have to quit what you are currently doing to be able to do what you’re passionate about”. If you have to support yourself and this restaurant is supporting you then let’s just leave that piece alone for right now. But I would say that if music is what you’re passionate about, then make music your life and making the pizzas just the thing that keeps you afloat until music can become your life.
I don’t think it is necessarily bad to do the typical responsible thing if you can figure out how to make what you’re passionate about, work for you as well.
