SOLD: Beautiful Happyzine

Published in Happyzine Winter 2008

Nineteen year old David Coffey plays drums in the Christchurch based band ‘The Insurgents’. He shares his advice about making your dreams into a reality and making the most of being young. What makes you happy? Lots of things, the people around me, my friends, my family. The simple things, like achieving a goal, no matter how minor it is. This kind of keeps me sane, keeps me positive. It keeps me looking towards the future instead of dwelling on what’s happening now. It’s far easier to look towards the future, and to have something to work towards because I’m never as happy when I’m just static, when I’m not doing anything. Who or what do you consider to be special in your life? The people that surround me, my friends and family. Music is a big thing. I always try and make time to enjoy things. Especially because I’m young, I try to have a good combination of fun things and boring things like doing work. Who or what gets you through the hard times and how? Friends and stuff like that, but not always in a really obvious ‘lets have a talk about what’s bothering you’ way, just more being there and sort of keeping it real and just being normal, because you need that. Maybe my mum’s the person who I talk to about problems but my friends – they just keep me normal, keep me sane. What do you dream of and what steps have you taken towards your dream? Well, I dream of music. And you know, I’ve been doing it for years and every time you play a show, make music, it feels real. It feels like this could happen and every time we practice it just adds a little step towards what you want. It’s gonna take a friggin long time and it’s a lot of effort and I have to work my ass off, ’cause I wanna go over seas like Chris is (my friend Chris in my band). I currently just work my butt off and that’s the really hard reality thing. It’s getting the dream and the reality thing and kind of combining the two. I know a lot of people who talk about their dreams, and though they talk about it a lot, they’re not actually doing it. They’ve got this dream, and transforming that dream into reality is the hard part. It’s far easier for most people to just sit around and talk about it but the reality is, it’s really hard, you’ve gotta do it though. What is the one thing you’d like to say to other youth about how to enjoy being young? Don’t get to caught up in yourself. Be yourself. Don’t worry too much about what other people think about you. Say what you think. Be honest. What is the one thing that you’d like to say to the world about being young? Don’t you wish you were all young like us? Don’t ya? You’re only young once and you’ve gotta get your money’s worth. The end. Charlotte Squire

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