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Personal Narrative Analysis

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I took voice lessons when I was ten; something I had always wanted to do, but had never tried. I wanted to be like Carrie Underwood, writing hit songs, making tons of money, and getting into all kinds of trouble with “cowboy casanovas”. Although singing was something I’d always wanted to do, I was afraid of being substandard, so I kept talking my parents out of it. Finally, my mom dragged me to the class and I was extremely nervous, I was shaking harder than Taylor Swift in her new music video. My mother’s assurance that I was a great singer and that the instructor would love me proved to be a poor buffer against my fears.
Despite my trepidation, I was forced to try it out and ended up loving it. Later that night I was excited about my future life as the next American Idol star. I stayed up late that night practicing the different techniques my vocal instructor taught me…I never went back. Fear of rejection and embarrassment crept back into my mind. I could not even bring myself to show my family what I learned, though they asked me to sing for days. …show more content…

It keeps us small and weak and ignorant. I decided somewhere along my way to where I am now to not allow that fear back in, but it is always a struggle. Even now, my family will attempt to get me to sing for them at the annual family reunions, but cannot because of some unnamed existential worry about ability or even desire. I have to consciously remind myself to DO activities because doing anything is more fun than

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