Creativity Isn't Always Perfect

I raised myself to be perfect, in school, family, and music.

My goal was to never mess up, no matter what happened, and I worked towards that goal, even

when I didn't need to. I thought that the best way for me to achieve that was endless mindless

repetition, which worked up to a point.

My first recital, all of my music fell off the piano, and I realized that I never learned or even

thought about how to play music, I killed my creativity to practice memorization. I had to keep

going and I discovered exactly what it meant to creatively make music then.

Afterwards I had so many people come up to me and compliment me, not on the perfection of

my music, but how immersed and creative I looked while playing.

By: Anhad Gill

Year: Sophomore

Major: Information Systems management

Hometown: Cedar Rapids, IA

Fun fact: I’ve lived in 5 different states