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Harmonica Helps Gary Find Joy and Purpose
I knew people with depression, but I didn’t think I had any.
In any case, I was given a book by a friend of mine, an excellent book called The Power of Now, by Eckhart Tolle, and it gave me the power to trust myself. And what I did is I decided to do something that was impossible, which was just to choose to become a musician.
By that, I mean just someone who can play music, because I couldn’t, but I was at a stage in my life when I realised that I am made of music, so I should be able to play it.
So I went the next day to buy a banjo, a little bit discouraged, because they were a lot more expensive than I’d imagined, but I ended up buying a harmonica, and it changed my life
What happened next changed my life…
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