Do you Feel like You're Losing Your Artistic Passion as an Adult? Because I Do.

When I was in school, I was always very into music and the arts. In middle school, I won an award for painting, and was always very involved in band. I was so involved in band, that I would spend hours on the weekends practicing my music, and finding every opportunity I could to play. Then, in high school, I continued playing in the band for a while before I found a new passion in dance and theater. My first musical, I was cast in a lead role, which was a very exciting thing for me having no musical theater experience, and during that time I was also preparing dances to perform in places like New York, New Orleans, and Detroit.

I say all of this to say that music and art was my life for years, and once I graduated from high school, I felt like I had lost a part of myself.

If you're reading this, you may feel the same way I do; like being an adult is hard, especially a young adult, if music and the arts were your entire childhood.

I think part of the reason young adults that were once very into the art or music scene feel lost is because of the pressure from others to not continue artistic pursuits during college or elsewhere. Unless you're some kind of professional musician or a prima ballerina, most people look down on college students or young adults for loving the arts and would consider it "frivolous." However, college athletes are heralded for continuing something that they loved in high school, and most older adults wouldn't dare call that frivolous or stupid.

While I used to love the music and arts scene, I knew that I probably wasn't going to just jump into it anywhere other than my hometown and probably not anywhere where the arts and music crowd is larger. Realistically speaking, I'm just not that good.

What's disconcerting about this, though, is that because theaters or other places made for more seasoned actors, artists, or musicians only want the best of the best, it's really hard for amateurs to find a creative outlet.

The thing is, is that people shouldn't have to be amazing to do what they love and enjoy for fun. As long as it's something they want and are willing to work for, it just shouldn't matter how talented they are. I'm not saying that talent isn't helpful, but drive is more important.

Just because you feel like you're losing your creative passion doesn't mean it's over for you, and there's surprisingly a lot of ways that adults, no matter what age, can get back into their artistic ways.

Many places offer improv or acting classes for adults who enjoy theatrical performance, and most cities have somewhere that offers amateur adult ballet classes or even barre lessons. Not only that, but making music can also be something done in your free time for fun.

Just because you can't capitalize off your hobbies, doesn't mean you should give them up because anything you love is worth doing, even if no one is watching.