The music industry is one filled with so many characters and some will drain you: the Negative Nancy who thinks that no one will ever make it and that the industry sucks, the two-faced shadows that smile to your face but hope you fail, and the "helpless" who use sad sob stories to get you to spend all of your emotional resources on them without return... yeah, there are plenty of them.

Months ago, I was selected to perform at the 2017 'A World Away Concert' organized by Emerging Young Artists. The concert would feature 24 local multicultural indie artists - each ever so talented and with amazing attitudes. I was so honored to participate.

It's almost 2 pm in the afternoon and I am still coming down from the high of yesterday night's show. As I write this, my head is heavy, my ankles are burning, and my mind has become a theater, repeating every piece of yesterday in my head.

For the next 3 hours, that followed I would stand shaking with a sign that said #peaceforsouthsudan while my friend Cari Flammia, handed out flyers with information on how to help people who are the innocent victims of a war that has claimed tens of thousands of lives in South Sudan.

This lesson made me focus more on the music I love, putting an element of myself in each song and believing in what I do humbly.