Let Music Speak

 A little known fact about me, the founder of this lovely little thing? I can play the piano. I actually learned how to play over 12 years ago. It is my first love. It is something very precious and dear to my heart. I even split the cost for a piano with my mom when I was 10 or 11. Not a keyboard, an actual Whitney piano. Now she's out of tune and old but I love her with everything in me. This talent, if that is what you want to call it, is something I don't share with everyone.  It's like my writing. It's a piece of me I keep mostly locked away because I'm afraid that the world will try to taint it. Or at least, that's how I used to feel.  See, I stopped taking lessons after 2 years or so of learning. Not because I hated going to classes. Not because I hated the recitals. Not because I hated the practice at home. No, I loved every minute of it. No, I just stopped and that may be the hardest thing I've ever had to come to terms with.
    About a week or so ago, I was waiting on my best friend to come to my house and I was seconds away  from falling asleep. That's when something hit me. I just had the strongest urge to go downstairs and pay a visit to my Whitney. See, even though I stopped taking lessons, every few months I play just to see if I lost my touch. There is one song that I can play by memory. When I mess that up, I pull out all my music books and practice. That day I played that song beautifully or as beautiful as Tarantella can be. 
    I don't know if it was because nobody was home or because I realized how much I miss just sitting there with my piano but I started to compose. Another little known fact? I have always wanted to compose a piece. Not something challenging or over the top, just something I could call my own. I don't have the correct paper so I've basically been writing notes on printer paper. It's rough and I've barely started it but I wanted to share what I'm doing. Another piece of me. And now we come to the question, why?
    I have played around the piano for many years, changing up songs and what not, but I have never actually sat down to compose a piece. Over a decade after I started learning, here I am, just randomly composing something. I don't know what it's called. I don't know the end product. But yes, it's really happening and I couldn't be more thrilled about it. So keep your heads up and chase every dream you've ever had. Sometimes, they may disappear but I am living proof that even when you let dreams slip away if they are meant to be they will find a way. 

 Positive vibes only,
Cydney