My Perspective Of Music: I Changed My Life

Picking up a guitar for the first time transformed my life completely. My Perspective of myself changed, the world seemed much brighter and I was able to find myself again. I went through a time in my life in which I had severe depression and anxiety due to bullying and problems in my family. Music truly saved my life, it molded me into the person I am today. I have no idea who I would be or where I would be without it. At the age of 9 I had the mentality that I didn’t want to live anymore, my only solution at that point was death. I went through various therapy sessions where I talked about how I felt and why I felt it. I struggled to explain what I was feeling so nothing really helped. Everyday was a really big challenge for me to face I

I’ve been beyond blessed to meet and play with some of the most amazing professional musicians who have influenced me in a way that no one ever has. They taught me how to fail, yes you read it correctly it says “fail”. When I played with them I would constantly mess up it was embarrassing of course but you couldn’t tell because I would always improvise and that’s exactly what life is, when you fail you improvise and make it better or you turn around and start all over again. All of my experiences with music made me realize that nobody is perfect everybody has their flaws even professional musicians who have been playing for a long time fail many times in their careers and it’s okay. Once I realized that failure was a good thing I began to slowly find myself again, it truly was one of the best feelings in the world to be able to wake up from a dark place that I’ve been living in for a long time. After playing guitar for 9 years I can proudly say that I have failed many times and I’m still learning after all these years. I will never master the guitar no one ever will because one way or another we will all fail at some point. I can always make myself better but never