Personal Narrative: My Involvement In The Arts

From the age of five, I’ve always been involved in the arts. I learned how to read at a far more advanced level than my friends and started winning awards for some of the writing we did in elementary school. My parents always encouraged that strength of mine but they never believed I could actually do something useful with it. With writing, I became an artist as well. I remember we would have art class with Ms. Naccarato every Thursday and how obsessed I was with each art project we had. Maybe that’s why Thursdays are always a good day for me still to this day. Although I was very involved with my artistic side, I also surprised myself with mathematical skills as well and short after we learned long division, the school’s placement tests had …show more content…
The class started out dreadful! I remember the pain of cutting and creating patterns, sewing again and again only to make the same exact mistakes as before, and tearing up with frustration at why the garments weren’t coming out a certain way. The class made me doubt myself so much. I had easily excelled at almost all of my school subjects my entire life and here I was sitting here with barely any knowledge on how to properly use a simple sewing machine. As the course went on however I grew more patient and dedicated. I realized that if I sat down, breathed and collected my efforts, I could really transform this weakness into a strength, and with more of my time and dedication, I quickly became one of the best students in the class. Finishing that class, I knew with my newfound passion for clothing, I could really pursue something in this. As college application time came around senior year, my love for fashion only deepened. The Fashion Design class had really challenged me mentally and it proved to me that great things could be achieved if I had poured my heart into it. I found something I didn’t know I was looking for and