I fell in love at the age of thirteen. I was young, impressionable and yeah at the time had no idea what love really was. It happened so quick and had taken years to get up to that moment. That first moment I knew I met the love of my life, and I am still with them now. Falling in love is a beautiful thing, there is nothing like it.

When we first met, I was in the fourth grade. My band teacher introduced us in our once a week bad class where kids in all different fourth-grade classes met for an hour to make music. They caught my eye immediately. I couldn’t stop staring at them from across the room. The little girl I was just thought she wanted to be friends, so I became very excited when the teacher sat them next to me. That was the start.

Over the next five years, we grew really close. We shared a lot of laughs and a lot of good times. Our first concert in the fourth grade, I held them close for the first time. We were both so nervous, them dripping sweat, my hands getting moist. We shared the same excitement and nervousness that night. At eight years old, I looked at them and knew that this was something special. I didn’t know exactly what it was at that moment but now I’m pretty sure it was love. That was the start to so many great memories to come. It turned out to be a concert where I knew I fell in love.

Things weren’t always so nice and full of laughers; we shared a lot of frustration and anger. Sometimes when we tried to communicate, things didn’t come out right. We fought through a lot of tough times, sometimes you both can’t have what you want. Relationships become a push and pull at times. They key is knowing when to give in and knowing when to push through. The thing that made the fights easier? We knew we wanted each other to be together in the end. The night we fell in love was all worth it. Every part of it.

We fell in love in the eighth grade the night we played Carnegie Hall. It was the biggest night of my life up to that point. The whole day I only felt comfortable because they were by my side the whole night. I held them literally the whole day. They never left my side making me calm down with the performance anxiety up to the point of walking on stage. That night together we walked with each other to the stage, to my seat and we played a concert. At the end of the program, I stood up, held the love of my life and took a bow. That is the night I fell in love with the clarinet.

I fell in love with playing the clarinet. Here I am having played for ten years and never have been bored by it. When you fall in love you have great moments, moments of frustration, you have laughs and tears. Together you experience life and growth. You spend more and more time together, going through the rollercoaster of life together. The clarinet has been by my side ten years, ten long, amazing wonderful years. I couldn’t live without playing and it would break my heart if I ever had to stop and that it love.

When you find passion, you find love. You find something you can put everything into and never regret it. Falling in love is amazing especially when you don’t have to worry about being left behind. Falling in love is something you need to experience in the greatest way possible, and I am happy I found love with the one thing that has given me happiness, dedication, power and self-confidence. Fall in love with what you are passionate about. Fall in love with what you want to do for the rest of your life because when you fall in love you will be so happy, so successful, you will find yourself and you will love yourself.