This is exactly what I needed to hear. I feel like this was an advice letter written to me honestly. I’m a young human who’s been confused about the idea of “success” in music and looking at the blurry lines between fame and fulfillment. Actually, a few days ago I realized that I placed my entire identity on calling myself an “artist who HAS to make it by 25 or else I’m a failure” and have been measuring my worth in the numbers on social media. I would always compare myself like a finished product to other people who “are successful” who don’t overthink this as much as I do. I realized this unhappiness and quickly deleted my social media profiles and been starting to ask myself some real questions about what I want, not what society says I want. Over the years obsessing over this idea I pretty much cut everyone off and soon found myself alone and unhappy whilst caught up in the idea that I can’t have fun while “working” on music. Soon this became constant stress to the point of I just stopped playing guitar and dreaded the idea of songwriting or playing a show and resorted to constantly browsing the internet for the answer to this void in my life. I’ve got to let myself have fun with music, not worry 24/7 and wake up with anxiety every day about how I will have to figure out a way to pay the bills with it one day or that I have to be a superstar to be happy and fullfilled.. Thank you for this post.