Graduation/Birthday

[Resilience]

I passed my hearing for my senior recital and completed my senior recital. I messed up a lot because I truly wasn't prepared, I had the jitters, lack of sleep for about a week or so working on the music, and my nerves were bad but I finished it!!! Now its smooth sailing with my finals and I will be graduating this Saturday, on my birthday with a Bachelor's Degree in Music!

Here's the long and short of one of my resilience stories.

I actually suck at my instrument, the cello, which I started playing when I got to college in 2007. I was in school from 2007-2011 then I moved to Texas before I could graduate. Fall of 2019 my husband encouraged me to go back to school and everything that could discourage me from finishing, almost made that a reality. As I said before, if you are alive today you have made it through literally EVERYTHING you have ever been through and you got it within you to overcome today too!

I got discouraged because I had such a gap in my learning after being out of school for so long but I took what I had, gave it what I could despite multiple mental health crisis situations happening simultaneously while I was trying to finish school. Last week I thought I had missed my shot to walk across the stage this coming weekend, then Friday I woke up and gave myself permission to try it again!

Please, whatever you do, don't give up on yourself!

[Shnookie]

Congratulations 🎊🎉🍾🎈 YAY 😀

U did it. That’s a fabulous attitude U

have especially amidst this pandemic and U R so lucky to have a supportive spouse.

U have as we say in Spanish Ganas

a burning desire to keep on going. I try to use this as one of my mantras.

Hugs 🤗 Shnookie