A Personal essay on: My first Piano Concert

Music is a part of everyone's life. One way or another, everyone will eventually develop a taste in music, in their favorite genre of music. It's never clear why people start taking an interest in a certain kind, what makes it strike a chord within us, but such reasons seem irrelevant. It can start off by the randomly placed hum or whistle during the day, or the persistent lyrics, clawing their way to your mind's …

…no matter how good you are, or how much experience you have, nothing can ever prepare you for a stage. You could be the best of the best, and still those pre-show butterflies would get to you. Maybe it is the fact that all attention is on you, or that you really have no "control" over what will happen, but what ever it is, it has pushed our cultures to test their emotions for centuries.