The Introvert on stage
I may or may not have mentioned this previously, but I used to love singing. Even thought it would be my career for a long time, until my crippling stage-fright became too much to manage. I left school at 16, and started college just before I turned 17, studying Rock Music and singing. Which required me to move out of home, into the halls of residence, as we lived too far away for me to commute. I remember thinking I was so grown up, and so ready to live independently. So wrong on many levels, but looking back, I have no regrets about it - so many of my life learning experiences were in that first year away from home, and it probably speeded up the process of some of that learning. I'm putting a positive spin on it (as is my usual way of being!), as I'm under no illusions that there are lots of things that were not good about that first year of independence, but I don't see any point in dwelling on things that may or may not have happened if things had been different....