A Musician's Effect by Brian

A Musician's Effect by Brian - December 2014 Scholarship Essay

Since the day I turned seven, expression has defined and revitalized each experience throughout my life. Challenges often come forth and pass on in our lives where various experiences capture a quick snapshot as to how the future may come to be and how our current lives can be represented and redrawn through a thin bundle of colored lines. The perseverance we develop from such trials and tribulations in our lives defines the very person we are, and begins to create the figure we strive to become.

Such has become my life, for when I began to pursue new paths and goals in my younger life I discovered the raw passion to be found within music at a relatively young age. Since that instance, I have made creativity and music one of the highest concentrations in my life in order to develop my intentions and desires into each piece of music I've written and each piece I would further perform for years after. Following my beginnings in the second grade, I have since grown to become an adamant and emotionally invested guitarist with heavy focus on the skills associated with performing as a musician and have applied the long nights spent writing sheet music after sheet music to other values in my life, mainly my high school education. As I began to learn work ethic for extracurricular accomplishments the bonds between my school life and private life molded together like a string of binary code as the ability to write fluently from music provided the same focus to write emotionally and unbiased in the school work I've received over the past four years of my high school career.

Along with enhanced writing skills, the dedication I have developed for finishing a task that I grew to learn as a musician has provided me with two of the many essential life skills; a meticulous focus and a sturdy independence. Each day in my classes have since become more fascinating as the controversial ideas presented in classes such as Chemistry, Physics and Precalculus have opened my mind to a new and broader understanding of the mechanically engineered world that one cannot see with the naked eye and these skills have allowed me to develop a brisk yearning to study new theories about the revolutionizing world. Even when experiencing other core classes such as history and math, the skill for critical analysis that I developed due to pursuing new instruments has carried me on through to my senior year of high school with much anticipation and ease as core and abstract subjects have become easier to understand, allowing me to thrive among my other peers with a great readiness and hearty anticipation for the future thanks to the education I have received in my high school years.

With support from family and friends, I have grown to discover a deep love for all forms of expression through writing and the fine arts. Without this, I would have never developed the same journalistic aptitude that I have striven for throughout my late years as a teenage student or the overwhelming desire to write and share my ideas with the world through print and paper in the future. The ideology created from classic pieces of literature written by the great late William Shakespeare to the dark poems written by Robert Frost have fascinated each facet of my personality and have helped develop my identity into that of a quiet silhouette of a keen reader and an aspiring intellectual who strives to understand the world around him, learning each and every day. Without the first chords I played on my guitar I would never have had the chance to develop the overwhelming and embellishing sense of gratitude and respect that comes from teaching others or the feeling of relentlessly striving after incredulous goals no matter how outreached they may be, or how perfidiously amassing the path to achieving those goals on the strings of life may truly appear.