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When I went through the toughest parts of my life I started listening to music the most at the age 11. I listen to bands like Nirvana, Jimmy Eats World, Simple Plan, The Killers, The All-American Rejects, and many more. I would connect to lyrics from parts of songs and it would get me in a better mood. If I ever was having a bad day, music is where I would turn to. I never thought music would impact me as much as it did over my childhood. I would get bullied in school, so instead of fighting and causing problems, I would actually have a notebook that I would just write lyrics of the thoughts I was having. I never shared these lyrics with anyone, I would right lyrics after lyrics about how I was feeling in the moment of that day. When I got to high school I started learning how to write songs, how songs were structured, how to name a song, and how to start singing a song in a harmony. I was inspired how much I could write song after song, now having so many lyrics from the past years. My Junior year of high school I started looking into how or where I could get songs recorded. I went to a local studio to get an idea of how songs where made. I was memorized by how the process of making a song was done, I just knew that's what I wanted to do, to make songs and produce them for myself and others.  When I hit rock bottom senior year, I turned back to music to get better. After leaving school, I would listen to music daily whenever I had the chance to listen to music I would. I learned from Youtube how to start breaking down songs, it became a hobby that I would enjoy doing when listening to music. One day, I found a non-profit organization on Instagram called the Truce Initiative, their motto was that 'Music Had The Power To Heal'. I connected to this motto so much because music saved me, it got me through all the worse parts of my life. Sadly this organization ended because of funding, but I still held onto this motto because of how much I connected to me. I now have this motto tattooed on me to remind me and anyone that music does have the power to heal someone. How a person in any mood or situation can find a song out there to connect to and it would help them to a better mood or resolve problems. This motto, ' Music Has The Power To Heal' motivated me to finally go for my dreams. June 18th, 2016, I auditioned for the TV Show, 'The Voice' and found out that I needed a lot of practice if I wanted to be a singer. So I knew I wasn't going to let my dreams die. I wanted to be an engineer in music, I started learning of to use free software of editing and creating music. This the start of the dream I always wanted to be apart of. July 2016, I went down to Florida where I saw Full Sail University, I was so inspired to get started in the music industry, sadly at the time I didn't have the money to start college in Florida, let alone get from Connecticut to Florida. I lost hope that my dream would never become true. Summer of 2017, my favorite band, 'Our Last Night' had a contest that randomly selected people that reposted their date that they were playing a Warped Tour in would get the lifetime chance of working with the band for the day. I was lucky enough to win for my Warped Tour date, I learned so much the day with them, I asked questions about how they do music all on their own. how they think of songs, etc. I learned so much about monitoring engineer by seeing their engineer Rich working the equipment. I started to gaining hope that maybe this was a sign for me to get back on track to my dreams. Fall of 2018, Full Sail University called me seeing if I was still interested in going to school there, that back in 2016 my advisor actually vouched for me to join Full Sail, this was a dream come true. All the Inspiration and Motivation I had bottled up over the years, id finally get on the path to my fulfill my dreams.