Channeled energies

As a child I channeled my creative energies by participating in academic activities. I have always possessed a love for learning. One thing I enjoyed to do was read, after I read a book I put it on a bookshelf I had in my room. I remember specifically when I was eight years old and I would stay in my bedroom and alphabetize my books and write numbers inside the cover, then I would pretend I owned a library and I checked books out to fake people. 

Along with pretending to have a library, I pretended to be a teacher. I would construct a lesson plan and place my stuffed animals in rows, as if they were in desks. My mom would buy me books that had math activities, reading activities, or writing activities. I taught my fake class the work in those books. When I no longer wanted to play school I would do my brother’s, who is four years older, math homework.

That lasted until I was in the sixth grade, at that time I signed up for the school band and learned to play the flute. I gained a passion for playing music and from then on I channeled my energies into playing musical instruments. Beginning in the sixth grade I played the flute, by the time I graduated I was able to also play the piano and percussion instruments (such as snare and xylophone). Academic activities have shaped my life by allowing me to make outstanding grades in school with no difficulties. Still to this day when I am troubled by life I pick up a book or play an instrument and I am transported into a world that nobody else can enter.