My Love Of Music

There are so many things in my life, that I am overly grateful, appreciative, and thankful for. My family, friends, good health, a roof over my head, and being able to do the thing I love and enjoy most, dance.

Passion; an intense desire or enthusiasm for something. The latin origin of the word ‘pati’, meaning to suffer. For me running is my passion in every sense of the word.

My love for baseball started a long time ago when I was still a little kid, I Must have been six or seven years old. I could not have been younger than this, although I can vividly remember the experience as if it was yesterday. It was actually the very first time that my dad volunteered to take me to a real baseball game, he must have seen my love for baseball due to the fact that I loved playing catch when I was a young boy. From this observation he must have seen a future baseball player. He was also a baseball player, so baseball was not actually new to the family. I had the thought that I might have been a basketball star, however i enjoyed baseball too much and was much to short to be much good at basketball.

Boring. That is the first word that pops into someone's head when I ask them to describe this beautiful sport. They either say the sport is too boring, too complicated, or just lengthy to both watch and play. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, no doubt. But the sport of baseball is one that has always mesmerized my brain when I play/look at it. It is perhaps the best metaphor to describe life, and also the best metaphor to describe me.

The sport of football is viewed by many as the most exciting and greatest sporting event of all. Although they're many other sports that are also entertaining, football is in my eyes is the best. Why is football my favorite sport? The coaches can inspire others to achieve greatness, you'll get the best fitness without ever buying a gym membership, and the discipline you will earn will help you throughout life. If it wasn't for my coach believing in me I would not have known the talent I have nor would I like football.

One of my greatest interests is music. Music is a big part of my everyday, because it serves as my “life soundtrack”. All I do is put on my earbuds and push play, and now I am able to get ready in the morning, go to class, clean, do homework, go to sleep, and everything in between. It took my brother taking me to my first concert for me to pick up a guitar and begin learning how to play. Learning how to play guitar was difficult, painful,

Growing up with two older sisters who were involved in various activities meant that I spent a lot of time in the backseat of my mother’s minivan (as we brought them around to their sports games and music lessons and more). When I was old enough to get involved, I leapt at the opportunity and chose soccer, cross country, mixed martial arts, cello and piano. Although I loved doing all of these things, something about my music lessons always stood out to me. When I was playing music, I felt truly in my element, so when I thought about the next chapter in my life, I realized that I couldn’t imagine music not being a part of that story.

I look at myself in the mirror in my room and I realize how much of a person I have grown into. Before I used to be this shy little girl that anyone could pick on. I was always nervous to talk out loud in class mostly because of the way I speak. Now that I’ve grown up, I’ve changed into a whole different person in that I have grown greatly.

Ever since my years in elementary school, I have had a love for music. This love developed in middle school where the notion of teaching music came to me. In high school, I knew the profession that was right for me was music education. After graduation, I began my journey to my calling by attending Shepherd University.

It seems like from the moment I could walk, I have had a love for dancing. When I was little, every chance I got, I would perform in front of my family. Whether I was singing, dancing, dressing up, or pretending to be a model on the runway, I wanted all the attention on me. When my mom put me into dance classes, I instantly fell in love with it, because the whole time, I got to do what I loved the most: perform. As the years went on, dance became something I was truly passionate about, and the lessons I learned from it began to change me. Those lessons and the ones I am still learning from dance have had a huge impact on me, making me into the person I am today.

“Basketball is my favorite sport, I like the way they dribble up and down the court” – Kurtis Blow. My love for basketball started when I was very young, fifth grade to be exact. Growing up I always wanted to try out for my school’s basketball team. When I was young I use to always hear stories about my mom playing basketball throughout junior high and high school. Some of which made me want to play and do something that she loved to do. I eventually started loving the sport as much or even more than she did. This story goes way back to the fifth grade when I first tried out for the basketball team at my elementary school.

I was born and raised in Hialeah FL, Miami Dade. By the age of 4 I was playing baseball for my local park, following my older brother’s footsteps like any little brother would do. By the age of 10 I was one of the best baseball players in my division. It was my favorite sport and hobby right after going to work with my dad in his big red Tow Truck. I attended Mater lakes Highschool and middle school, it was about fifteen minutes from my house on a good day of traffic. It was a very tiny school that eventually grew but continued to be small due to the number of students. School was fun but working with my dad was better. It created a love for cars that to this day is still alive. Working on cars, selling cars, and buying cars was something I’d see my old man do daily. He had so many cars that it got engraved in me that one day I will own my own collection. By fourteen my old man was already teaching me how to drive manual cars. By sixteen he bought me my first car, a 1998 Jeep wrangler Sahara edition. The green monster was lifted on huge mud tires and the coolest part, it was manual transmission. I loved taking it to school every day, it was a blessing I will always be thankful for. My love for cars grew so dramatically that by senior year in high school I had already six different cars. I loved it, not just owning the vehicle but also doing my research about it. Reading, and learning about cars is something that I found captured my attention and made it easy for me to

I like kids but I don’t want them. Me liking kids lead to the enjoyment of me wanting to teach. Seeing a child grow and learn is very special. My love for kids and wanting to help others is my reason for wanting to be a teacher. Being a teacher could fill the void of me not wanting kids being able to return them after a long day. Being able to affect someone's life a very young age. Not being able to give my full attention would be selfish knowing my job revolves around other kids and their needs. I really do like kids. The way I like kids, though is very specific and short term I was able to experience the joy of teaching at a young age. I was able to introduce lesson plans to young kids between the ages 3 and 4 impacting their life and

The vast majority of people think football is just a sport. However, to me it has been one of the greatest things I have yet to do. It has given me a surplus of life skills I can carry to my adulthood. The time I have so far spent on the sport is time I would not want back, because of how useful it is to me. Throughout the past couple of years, which I have spent playing the sport, I have gained a love for football. The love is so massive, that I want to pursue a career that affiliates with the sport.

Throughout most of my life I have had one consistent goal; to become a veterinarian. I have had a continuous and solid passion for animals in all respects. This passion and love has fueled my in striving to achieve the dreams I have for myself after high school. The beginning of this story begins long before high school though.