College Admissions Essay: Why I Want To Live

I want to entertain; knowing that I can make people happy with what I can create, with what I say and what I do makes all the difference to me. As a child, I loved theatrical performances with all my heart, funny improv games and shows with my little sister helped test our creative outlets. I also played with musical skills picked up thanks to my father; the way songs can audibly represent emotions, settings, even complete stories fascinated me. So, I set out on a mission to create and to make and experience everything I could to be involved with art in general. I performed in our middle school select choir and the three play productions in my time there as well, because I could see that it made people happy to be included or involved, either watching or performing. I experimented with the musical media I loved involving electronic dance music for a time, tapping out harmonies on demo computer programs even though I couldn’t read music or compose full, polished songs. And, bringing fine arts and other mediums like film into the equation, I knew I had something to offer, steadily getting drawn first into illustration and later realizing that animation was my true passion. It had everything—I let the stories I had been creating since I was a kid loose in a medium that twisted together everything I could ever love and more. I could draw from other inspirations, anything at all, and make something completely new and unique …show more content…
Knowing how sentimental I can be about my own inspirations, I’d love to work with people who want to do the same thing as me. To be able to both collaborate on and create my own projects that could be membered by generations after I’m gone, in my opinion, would be an incredible privilege and