I had a super blessed high school experience. There were a lot of factors that contributed to that, but I think a lot of it had to do with choir.

I’ve never been the best singer and I don’t play an instrument. I’m not perfect at sight-reading and I can’t belt like some of my friends. But choir gave me the opportunity to make way more than just music.

Making music is a beautiful thing. And it’s even more amazing when you get to make music with strangers who soon become some of your best friends. However, you don't only make music. You learn more about others than you thought there was to know.

Throughout my high school experience, and experience with choirs in general, I have met so many different people. People who come from different backgrounds and people who have such different interests than myself.

I was given the unexchangeable experience to love people who are so different than I am- and to truly appreciate their differences.

If choirs consisted of people who sounded the exact same, so much beauty would be lost. The beauty comes from all of the different sounds of uniquely different people that come together to create one sound.

Much like a choir, this world consists of people from different backgrounds and interests. If this world were full of people who were just alike, so much beauty would be lost.

I’m thankful for the opportunity to be in choir and I wish others could have the same experience. It was just a glimpse of the beauty created by the union of many differences.