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"Be stubborn about your goals, and flexible about your methods!"
This is a quote that now reverberates through me when I share this particular experience of mine.
As best as my memory serves (and I can vouch for the fact that I have a good one) I do not remember myself not singing. The first memory of singing in public that I have is at my music teacher’s place when I was 5 years old. Since then music has been an eternal part of who I am, it defines me in a way that maybe I am also not fully aware of.
After years of training in Hindustani classical and Rabindra sangeet suddenly it dawned upon me that what if I knew how to play something as well? I wanted to learn how to play the guitar to accompany me with my Denver, Lennon and Presley, but with higher studies going on side by side it was not possible to pursue this wish.
Instead I took it up on myself to learn how to play the “ukulele”. So last year in January I clicked on the first YouTube tutorial and within 4 months I played in public during my university farewell. For most people this might be nothing, not even close to an achievement but to me it is fulfilling one of my dearest wishes and something that I can cherish throughout my life.
Mayurakshi Mukherjee
Class of 2020
Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar