College Admissions Essay: How Music Changed My Life

Throughout my life there has been a greater emphasis on music and artistic talents rather than on physical attributes. I am not athletically inclined in the slightest, but music comes naturally and a love for it grew from my first and only piano teacher. She threw me my most secure life line when I was seven years old. My parents bought a heavy, ancient and well-used upright piano from one of our neighbors many years ago. It was almost mesmerizing to have a piano at my house and not just my grandparents. I love to play around on that piano when the only song I knew was “Heart and Soul” and I didn’t care to learn anything else. My mom has told me that when I played, I played individual notes and was precise with my fingers instead of banging …show more content…
My passion was becoming a chore and my mom noticed this, contacted my teacher, and there was a let up in the level of my pieces. I hadn’t really realized this at the time but I almost immediately went back to loving piano. I wasn’t told until much later that I found out what my mother had done. She saved my passion because she knew it was a growing life line for me.
As my life has shifted and changed for the past nine years, I have been stressed and anxious too many times to count. For a while, I couldn’t find a source of relief that I could fall back on, so I quickly became overwhelmed and fell apart. I didn’t realize this at the time, but I had been neglecting my life line. I had forgotten how much piano had meant to me and how much it helped me. But, many other times I have been in the same boat where I was overwhelmed, then I went and played the piano.
This life line has been one of the most secure life line I have had because I don’t need someone else in order to keep it. Mayna McGill brought the desire to learn music and that sent a domino chain towards it making my life easier and