Beethoven's "Moonlight" Sonata (Op 27 #2 Mov 3). One of Beethoven's most famous pieces. Probably the one he is most known for. He had lost approximately 60% of his hearing by the time he wrote this piece. To listen to anything written in the time when Beethoven lived is life altering. If you are a music person like me. To think about all the time put into the complexity of a piece.
The above link talks about being unique. Being together as humans but being yourself. Yes I am aware that it is a commercial for Android. But it makes a huge valid point in our lives. We are held back to much by ourselves. Beethoven had lost more than half of his hearing when he wrote this piece. The amount of emotion..... I won't bore you with my over dramatic emotional nonsense.
I have omitted one fact from you. When Beethoven wrote this piece, he was in his 30's. He was more than half deaf. I could sit here and say what's your excuse but maybe I should use a modern example to help you out.
At the end of Governors School, our director predicted what we were going to do with our life. She went through everyone and had these amazing aspirations for us, then she came to me. She told me that she saw me running a pre-school calling it tree school. Every play I was in, I was a tree. So it became a joke. I was the "mama" of the crew. Did laundry, ironed clothes, cleaned up after everyone. It was just who I was. 10 years later I'm still believing that that's all I'm good for.
I haven't been giving myself the benefit of the doubt that I had lots of training in a lot of different area's. I have the capability to do A LOT of things more complicated than what I've done in the past. I've sold myself short because of what someone told me years ago. And whose fault is that? My own. I have the ability to be so much more than what I give myself credit for.
At 18 I wrote a book, which has been in a box for 10 years. I've written plays, that have been saved on my laptop for years. I have music videos that I've poured my heart into that have gone un-watched. I have ideas that have been unvoiced. I have dreams that I put a rest to. All because I believed that I wasn't more than "mama tree".
Reality, I'm much more than that. You are much more than what people have been calling you your whole life. You are capable of more than what you think. Don't sell yourself short. Don't give up on your dreams. Push yourself and see what you can do instead of limiting yourself to what you think that you are worth. Live a little. If not for yourself, for the sake of the spirit inside you that's dying to soar!!
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