For as long as long as I can remember stories have captivated me. My father told me stories as a young child before bed. I would read all day. I remember reading about Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Fin. I read about the journey of a ring and halfling fighting against each other for all of civilization proving that a single person can change the fate of the entire world.
My mother is a musician and every night I would hear her play soulful stirring music. I learned how to play the viola at first. Then the Guitar. Then the drums. And now bagpipes. Music has always been a big part of my life.
My grandfather was an engineer and would lecture me in physics, math. and sciences. He designed the Lunar Lander, The Mars Rover and the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile. I was interested in all of them and wanted to embrace them all.
Then I discovered theater, the art of story telling, and loving it. I was told that I could be anything I wanted to be and at that time I was was too old to want to be Batman, being a part of theater was the next option. I fell in love with the phantom serenading the beautiful Christine Daae'. I fell in love Richmond defeating King Richard the III. My family was supportive and pushed me under the stage lights, it was soon made clear that I was not suited for for the stage at all. I then hid behind the lights and told stories from a far.
High school had started and the future was on my mind. I could not become and artist and forget what my grandfather had taught me. I could not become an engineer and forget what my the artistry my mother had taught me. I could not forget the stories that my father had given me. It seemed that they all wanted me to become a technician and that they had all been planning it for a long time. I was raised to be in theatre by my family I was not born that way.
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