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When my dad brought home the singing machine–complete with microphone stand–I fell in love. In love with singing, in love with Yaz (the group my sisters and I sang to most with on our new fangled machine) and in love with the idea of someday singing on a big stage.<\/p>\n
Until–as a freshman–I didn’t make it into the top choir at my school. And tough I did make it into the second highest choir, with several opportunities to sing solos, I believed myself not good enough, thus ending my singing career–and singing all together.<\/p>\n
Sadly, I had not yet learned the ways of successful people. Successful people like Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun of the band Twenty One Pilots.<\/p>\n
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The Twenty One Pilots video for their song “Ode to Sleep” inspired me as I watched them persevere with patience, playing for a group of 12 people then 300, then on to a crowd of 12,000.<\/p>\n
Watching this video I thought, that’s the key<\/em>. The key to success. And why I never achieved it in areas like piano lessons, choir and writing (and by success–I’m not looking for grandeur–I’m talking about just doing something, anything at all).<\/p>\n I never learned the lessons of pursuing talents with patience, of doing things simply for the love of it and of pleasing myself first–free from worry about the opinions of others.<\/p>\n I never learned to say the words spoken by Tyler Joseph when, in answer to the critics who told him, “You can’t be all things to everyone.”<\/p>\n He said, “I’m not trying to be! I’m being what I want to be for myself.”<\/p>\n But, although I may not have learned these things before, I’m learning them now.\u00a0 And I can honestly say that I’m loving the process of allowing myself to be a beginner. A beginner in pursuit of being what I want to be for myself.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When my dad brought home the singing machine–complete with microphone stand–I fell in love. In love with singing, in love with Yaz (the group my sisters and I sang to most with on our new fangled machine) and in love with the idea of someday singing on a big stage. Until–as a freshman–I didn’t make … Continue reading “Let’s Begin”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordsforthisday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordsforthisday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordsforthisday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordsforthisday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordsforthisday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/wordsforthisday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141,"href":"https:\/\/wordsforthisday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions\/141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordsforthisday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordsforthisday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordsforthisday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Screenshot_2016-06-16-10-07-13-1\"](\"http:\/\/wordsforthisday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Screenshot_2016-06-16-10-07-13-1-300x194.png\")
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