Music.

Hey there. Mikah here.

I find that music can help and influence people a lot. How, you ask? Well, first of all, it can make you feel better in tough situations or when things are hard to get through. I'm talking from experience. This summer, I moved to Oklahoma. It was hard for me because I had to leave a lot of my friends behind, and start over again. Music helped me a lot during this time by telling me things I needed to hear, or reminding me that home is where ever I make it to be. It still feels sad and hard at times, and sometimes it just feels like a big fat vacation, but music helps me feel like everything will turn out just fine.

Music also helped me in a different form too. Not just listening to music, but preforming it. In school, I signed up for Choir as an elective. That really helped me make friends who shared my same passion for music. My Choir teacher, Mrs. Singleton, is one of the nicest and sweetest ladies I've ever known. We sing beautiful music all the time, and I'm beginning to learn how to read music! That was something I thought I would never be able to do.

The third way its helped me is not by listening or preforming music, but by dancing to it. I am a ballet dancer. About a month after we moved here to Oklahoma in May, I signed up for ballet lessons again. My teacher, Ms. Pamela, helped get me back into shape. I've been dancing since I was 5 (7 years) and its become a big part of my life. Dancing helps me express how I'm feeling and helps me forget things for a while. It also helped me make new friends and begin to feel comfortable here.

Music can be big parts of our lives. If you let it, it can become a great friend. Music is our very souls being poured out to the people all around us. It can make you relize you are not alone, make you cry when you need to most, or put a smile on your face. Music is strong, weak, happy, and sad. Music is so many things. But most of all, music is beautiful.