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Personal Narrative: A Career In Music

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Everybody has to pass that point in life when they ask what I am doing with my life. Maybe it was a movie, or a book, a class conference or even a thought of a friend that make you think about how you got in there and why. When I go back to think about why do I do what I do, and if I am happy doing it. I can 't think in a specific moment. Music had always been there, so I don 't really know when or how I decided to pursue a carrier in music. However, it was not a routine or a path that I did not choose; I fall in love with it.
Music had always been there for me. My mom like me is clarinet player. She started teaching me when I was very little. I don 't remember my first time playing the clarinet, but I grow up with it as something very common. My whole family including me is from Costa Rica. It is a very small country in which the opportunities as musicians are very limited. My mom studied in one of the best conservatories in the world, Tchaikovsky conservatory, which is in Russia. She could do it because of a scholarship that she won when she was 21. My mom is a strong woman. She is a single woman who always supported my dream of study in another country …show more content…

However music was never an obligation. I choose it and I fall in love with it. It was not easy. I change fun for practices, trips for rehearsals and my friends started to get away because of my style of life. although the disadvantages, I continued and in the process I found friends in the same situation than me, also with same dreams than me of studying outside and even crazier as traveling the world. I discover that music brought me people and moments and happiness not only emotional but spiritual way. Music has two sides. My mom who showed me both suffered of them. She worked so hard that a couple years ago she had a stroke. Being and working as a musician put her in a situation of disadvantage and depression. However the consistent character of a musician and music itself brought her back from that black

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