To anyone who reads this, thanks ! I don't have any questions about bass or anything related to it, I guess a positive update. In the fall and winter this past year, I was really depressed. I thought of killing myself plenty of times. I lost all motivation in life. I hardly played or practiced, I just worked and sat in my room until it was time to fall asleep to ultimately wake up to another terrible day. But now, things are better. I started taking classes to a community college, where I've met a couple new friends. Since I work for my step dad I can get away with some stuff, so I have more free time now which I mostly spend at the gym or playing bass. I do feel a lot better. 2 days ago I was biking down the street and this cute girl talked to me 
albeit she's crazy and I shouldn't talk to her at all but hey. Still a good feeling. As for bass, I've been practicing much more than previously. I've been using my Ibanez sr205 a lot more than my other basses since it's a 5 string, and I think sometime soon I'll have to upgrade. But after this sucky winter I had to endure, I've learned a lot. Bass used to make me feel better. I was an angry kid. But when I was depressed it only made me feel worse. So for a while I hardly touched it. Now when I'm done with my classes I usually go right to the gym then play bass for a while. Music is a funny thing. There's a quote from a Tony hawk game that I think is pretty true here, if you replace skating with bass playing. "Skating didn't change, you changed. Now go skate! You'll remember why you started in the first place." I remembered why I started, because I loved it. Its almost 11:30 at night and I'm not ready to put it down yet, except of course to tell you wonderful people my story. I've been trying to get into tapping and sweeping more but it's a little tricky. I'm getting there. My end goal is to play technical metal, like Necrophagist or Meshuggah, Rings of Saturn I've gotten into recently. I'm far from being as good as someone like Stefan Fimmers or the likes but I'm up to the task of trying. I'm only 18 so I have a long way to go and a lot of work to do, but I'm going to try my best. If you read all this thanks for sticking with me, and keep bassing it up. 
albeit she's crazy and I shouldn't talk to her at all but hey. Still a good feeling. As for bass, I've been practicing much more than previously. I've been using my Ibanez sr205 a lot more than my other basses since it's a 5 string, and I think sometime soon I'll have to upgrade. But after this sucky winter I had to endure, I've learned a lot. Bass used to make me feel better. I was an angry kid. But when I was depressed it only made me feel worse. So for a while I hardly touched it. Now when I'm done with my classes I usually go right to the gym then play bass for a while. Music is a funny thing. There's a quote from a Tony hawk game that I think is pretty true here, if you replace skating with bass playing. "Skating didn't change, you changed. Now go skate! You'll remember why you started in the first place." I remembered why I started, because I loved it. Its almost 11:30 at night and I'm not ready to put it down yet, except of course to tell you wonderful people my story. I've been trying to get into tapping and sweeping more but it's a little tricky. I'm getting there. My end goal is to play technical metal, like Necrophagist or Meshuggah, Rings of Saturn I've gotten into recently. I'm far from being as good as someone like Stefan Fimmers or the likes but I'm up to the task of trying. I'm only 18 so I have a long way to go and a lot of work to do, but I'm going to try my best. If you read all this thanks for sticking with me, and keep bassing it up. 
