Diki could be a "thorn in your side" at times, but I usually learned a lot from his postings. Not just about keyboards, but about peripheral issues too.

I came across a SynthZone post of his from a few years back that I had saved. I first viewed it a few weeks ago. A week later I viewed it again. Then again and again until the penny dropped on what he was saying and how it affected me personally to the point I'm re-evaluating just about EVERYTHING in my life pertaining to playing music.

I already said I've been "burned out" of doing gigs for the last 3-4 years and not working like I used to. Couldn't figure out what's wrong, and why I'm not playing my Pa3x even, and why I'm just playing piano mostly for my own pleasure. And just a lot of things. ONE Diki writing and I'm starting to sober up as to what's actually going on with me and playing music these days.

I'd like to hear some of your comments on how Diki's narrative affects you (if it does). To me it's been a complete game-changer that I've been thinking about for three straight days now.

So.....let me hear what you have to say (if you relate to this) and then I'd like to discuss it further if it has an affect on you like it did me.

DIKI writes:

"One of the things about considering a lifetime in music is, you have to be flexible. That's a whole lifetime you are talking about, in a society that in almost any other industry, a lifetime means radical change. How many businesses are unchanged over a 40-50 year span?

Expecting to be able to do what you enjoyed in your youth, or mid years as you get older, and music changes, tastes change, social life changes is simply unrealistic. The way to survive it all is to not get tied to styles, or forms of presentation. The bottom line is, if making music nowadays doesn't excite you any more, how much of your love of the job is tied to doing what you did as a younger man (or woman!), and how much is tied to making MUSIC? Music changes. It has always changed, always will, and anyone that goes in expecting things to stay the same simply hasn't really learned the lessons of history"