You gotta do what you gotta do

Dec 10, 2008 at 11:12 PM
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I sing.

I am not the best singer in the world - that I admit. But I have been singing for as long as I can remember. There is a recording floating around somewhere of me singing when I was about 2 or 3.

I love to sing, but on the other hand, I have a hate-hate relationship with my voice. It doesn't always do what I want it to. As an instrument it's extremely fickle, and I find that the older I get it's more prone to hormonal influence. Damned hormones.

A couple of months ago I was wondering to myself what the hell I was doing? Why was I bothering? Who's listening? And if they have listened, do they even care? And I decided that I wouldn't bother any more. Once my Christmas gigs were over, anyway.

And I stopped singing. I didn't want to, so didn't bother.

And then last week, I suddenly wanted to again. And now I can't shut up. This evening one of my sons asked me to stop because they would all like a bit of peace and quiet and I was too loud.

Ha!

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Glad you've started singing again. I've noticed that, as my life has become busier/more responsible I've stopped singing a propo of nothing and that makes me sad.

Oh, I fully realise that I am extremely fortunate that I even have the time to do it. If I had been working even part-time in the past few years it might've gone out the window. As it is, though, when I spend time singing a lot of other hobbies/interests get thrown out. I don't have time to read, and even exercising, which should be a priority, gets shoved down the list.

But at the moment, I get paid for it, so that kind of justifies the loss of everything else.

Maybe when your kids are older, you can get back into it? I also belong to an amateur musical society and there are a few working mums who are members.

You gotta do what you gotta do

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