Home sweet home! / Music Therapy

Here I am. Back in old Cornwall Ontario, living at my dad's. It's been 2 weeks since I've been back from the ship. Life is good. I am appreciating those homemade meals and I've enjoyed seeing my friends again. Friends are so important. Without them, I'd probably die of a stroke or heart attack by the age of 40.

I haven't stopped moving since I got here. Lots of cities to visit. But now I can relax a bit waiting for an answer from Laurier University. I had my interview this week and I'm happy it went well. The field of music therapy is perfect for me for it combines all my interests: music, mind and humanity, which is the theme of this blog. Music therapy is both a science and an art. And still to this day I can't say that I am more one than the other. Science and art are just different ends of the same spectrum. Two sides of the same coin. I hope people are starting to realize this. The world is more united than it appears. I chose music therapy because it allows me to be creative both on the scientific and artistic planes. It is a field still very open to creativity and development because it is still young. Most people I talk to about it don't know a thing about it. It used to bother me. It bothered me because its not easy to take a path so different than most people. No one could really support me. Most people gave me a response such as this: "Music therapy eh?....that's interesting....what is that?" And after I try to explain some of the basics, they still have a blank look. That's not too easy to deal with. That tells me that there is still lots of work to do. The world needs to be educated. I guess you could say that I'm trying to live by Robert Frost's words: "I took the road less travelled by, and that has made all the difference." I think it's so important to stay true to one's heart. That truth is never too old. Temptation is everywhere and gets more tempting every day. So what I do is try to take some time everyday to listen to what my heart has to say. It's amazing all the conversations you can have with yourself! Hehe! No, I'm not a freak. Seriously!

Coming back to friendship though; I say that friendship is one of the most important things in life for a couple reasons. First, we can put all our troubles on them (well, most of them). We all need to bounce things off sometimes and that's what friends are for. But more interestingly I find that friends really help to define who we are as people. It's all about the people we hang out with. Collective attitudes are so powerful. They are monsters on their own. I consider myself very lucky to be born in Cornwall and to have been part of my group of friends from La Citadelle. If it wasn't for Jack or Mat, I don't think I'd be the same person. Friends make a deep impression on the soul (if I may permit myself to use such a vague term). I think part of Jack, and part of Mat are literally living inside me, like parasites! A bit the kind of feeling when you say to yourself, ah, man, I just reminded me of my dad. Sometimes, it can also be friends.