In her article the author Sarah Hoskyns talks about all the million and one things that a person has to handle at one time in everyday life. She also addresses how every music therapy student has their strength and weakness that help or hinder their abilities to be a music therapist. This article was what I really needed to read.
This Semester has been really rough for me at my universtity. I have been juggling several classes. All these classes have a lot of time consuming projects and all of the projects seem to be due at the same time. I was beginning to feel like I was the only one struggling with this problem because all of my fellow music therapy students seem to have all the free time in the world. I was also beginning to doubt my ability to be a good music therapist because of my inability to dance and improvise like all the other music therapy students. I have seriously considered giving up and dropping out of school because it is just too much to handle at times. Sarah Hoskyns’ Question “How does anybody survive it?” is the question that has been going through my head all semester.
After reading this article and giving it some thought I realized that I’m not alone in my struggles. I also decided that Music therapy is not an impossible profession. I also realized that it is not impossible to make it through school to be a music therapist as I had been thinking lately. I strongly agree with Sarah Hoskyns on two things that she mentions in her article. The first thing is she mentions in her article that we need to learn to drop the stuff that can wait and focus more on the stuff that is more important at the time. I would also add that procrastination does not help. The second thing that Hoskyns mentions is that a friend stated that “Really only God need apply”. I have realized as I look back that if God wants something to happen there is no way He can be stopped. So therefore if God has it planned for someone to be a music therapist that person will get through the nightmare. This also answers the “How does anybody survive it?” question, the only way anyone can survive in my opinion is God.
I actually agree with all that was said in this article and it makes me feel much better now that I’ve realized that I’m not alone in the struggles of the music therapy world. I would go as far as to say that every new music therapy student should have to read this article so that they know to start with that they are not alone.