Okay, but Why?

After graduating college, my will to do almost anything was completely gone. I had been so stressed for so long that I had no desire to join the real world that was also dealing with a pandemic (still). I was burnt out and tired of everything as well as broke living with my parents. It was just easier to not be in the real world. The few lessons I taught a week were nice and got me out of the house but not enough for me to start making it on my own.

I spent 2 months not doing much at all and finally decided I needed to get my life together and do something. The unfortunate thing was I was still burnt out. I didn’t want to do much with music since I was so dead. I got a job as a hostess at a nice restaurant that would help me save as well as started teaching more lessons. It was easier to work since my whole life wasn’t controlled by assignments and work studies. For the first time I was actually doing things with my life without being consumed by an overwhelming amount of stress and work. 

All this is great and all but, why a blog?

Well it all started one afternoon, I’m thinking about a deep question that a friend of mine asked me; “Rachel, what would you do differently from college?”I had thought a lot about things that I don’t suggest and tell potential college students not to do but I never thought about how I would suggest people to do it instead. While this question started eating at me, so many other things started flooding my head. I remembered the countless students that have asked me about my college experiences, the parents who ask me about my teaching philosophies, the students who look at me like I’m crazy when I suggest something in lessons, and the friends who ask me all the time how I did seemingly impossible schedules. 

So here in this space I hope to answer the questions. I hope to share what I can with the musicians, the curious, the students future and present, the ones who may need support, the ones who need someone to listen to them, or maybe just to give hope to those in the impossible schedules and unbearable workloads.