I love music. I've longed to be able to play music for a living, but I've never in the past disciplined myself enough to really master all the instruments I've wanted, or hone my composition/songwriting.

I have however started writing songs and recording roughly some two years ago. They're not much and I haven't recorded most of the ones I've written but I'm pretty proud of them.

So with that I guess all I can say is you try your best to pick yourself up, even just a little bit, and do what you can with what you have. You might end up surprising yourself.

On a more general note, a gratitude practice has also helped me. Writing down things I'm grateful of everyday. Even if it's just that song that helped you through last night.