Insight of the day:
"Marrying someone, if it's the right person, isn't surrendering something, it's actually a chance to build something." - Conan O'Brien @ The Michelle Obama Podcast
I suppose that's how I now look at my life, whether it's marriage, or motherhood. A certain local singer (kind of unintentionally rudely) at one point had asked me if I was gonna surrender my career upon marriage. And I suppose in Asian cultures we still kind of function and think that way for women in the industry. And I guess being a singer-songwriter and being female in the market has finally come to a point of realization that yes, eventually you'd hit this wall where people expect that you'd "choose" one or the other. Nobody promotes their new music as they willingly and knowingly gain weight, with a big belly, pregnant. They usually tend to hideaway, at least for the moment in time when they are considered less than attractive.
But I feel stronger and more confident now than I used to, and I feel more justified in my thoughts and more determined in my actions, because I'm growing up, and I'm more sure of myself, and I'm embracing my new lessons (and new mistakes) along the way.
Being a pregnant female singer-songwriter that is trying to stay active, in every sense of the word, career-wise and physically, has been rewarding, and even though there are more things I'd like to accomplish, I know that life will take its course, and perhaps yes, at this snapshot in time, it feels like I had to surrender some things. But in the grand scheme of things, it is investing the time to build something even more amazing, nourishing myself with more wisdom, perspective, love, emotions, and knowledge of the world and connecting with even more people that I ever knew possible, and with that, the potential of what I can share with the world creatively. I am confident that it will eventually shine through in my music, the music that I know I will continue to make in the future.
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