Sometimes you might get stuck with the job and responsibilities life has to throw at you. Music then takes a back seat.
I know a friend of mine who was a good amateur guitarist in his school days—a hardcore Eric Clapton fanboy. He used to take ownership of calling friends over for rehearsals and soundchecks. Later, his Chartered Accountancy (CA) prep and career took over; music started writing off and eventually blacked out from his interests.
He went on to become this smart, transformed young, reliable executive on the job, and kept getting better at it. Better job, bigger company, and a fatter paycheck, with a little bit of stress. He picked up dance as a way to beat this stress, joined a dance academy, got good at it, and became the lead dancer alongside his dance tutor. There he had everything, yet still felt something was missing: music.
He picked up his guitar again, only to find that all of his school friends were engrossed in their careers and didn’t have time for music. He found a new amateur group who had a liking for heavy metal, and he didn’t mind fitting into that genre.
Today, he has quit his job and aspires to tour with his metal band after mastering the genre. He has a strong desire to learn, intern, and slog it out just to fill in that vacuum that life forced upon him.
Ready to face the challenges music has to offer him, he has saved enough money to sustain himself post this detour. His journey is long, and he has realigned his goals; he is back on track with the original roadmap.
He now carries his acoustic guitar, plugs it into his iPhone through iRig, only to get better at it eventually.