Just a word of warning, I'm going to be very very honest in this blog. Perhaps it's a little strange to be putting myself out there so candidly like this, but then again that's why this blog is anonymous. But yes, to protect my own identity I made this as anonymous as I could, going so far as to deny blogger in tracking my location. Oh well, here it goes.
I've always been a little slower than everybody else. This has been true for everything in my life, thus the title of the blog. I'm a late bloomer! In particular, at 24 years old I still haven't had my first kiss. Also, I've just started taking singing lessons despite secretly wanting to be a singer for most of my life.
And thus that's what the two main topics of my ramblings are going to be, but primarily music. They say that the best time to start studying voice is when you're a teenager, but then again, that's when people are typically "supposed" to have their first kiss so I'm allowing myself to have some flexibility when it comes to the specifics of when I'm allowed to start learning skills and when I'm allowed to be good at said skills.
I guess that the reason why I'm such a late bloomer in both aspects of my life is because I'm a really shy person. I remember singing to myself all the time as a kid, however, when all the other kids started to make fun of me for it (boys don't sing, they play sports!) it promptly ended my singing career.
At around the same time I was developing an interest in girls, being that I was chubby, had braces and had now just denied myself a singing voice, I didn't have much of a chance in that area and as such, on top of the shyness that was already there, I developed an even more chronic shyness around girls.
Eventually I learned to play a few instruments pretty well, and I even won a music scholarship in college but I never really got the chance to go back to that one thing I always wanted to do as a kid, until about six months ago when I signed up for my first voice lesson. Since then I've been practicing all that I can and making some pretty decent improvements, though I'm still too nervous to share that voice in public at the moment.
I'll tell you what, at some point when I'm more comfortable with my voice I'll be posting it up here on this blog for the world to listen to.
As for girls, well, that's a more complicated story. One would think that high school and college would have given me ample time to "explore" so to speak, and while I did put in the effort, well, sometimes things don't really happen the way you expect them to. So here I am, still cootie free after all these years.
Yeah, my brain's shutting off. That's about it for now, catch you later.
