Me Thinks

Today I read an article in the paper about a 17 year old pianist named Anastasia Magamedova.  She has been playing the piano since age 5 and recently was chosen out of 12,000 applicants to be named a 2016 National Young Arts Foundation finalist. Magamedova recalled an interview she had recently seen in which the man being interviewed said that if someone is studying medicine, they know that they are doing it so that one day, when someone is in urgent need of help, they can save their life.  Anastasia continues:

"One day, someone's going to walk into the recital hall with a broken heart, with a broken life, and it will be up to me whether I can change them or whether they're going to come out with a different idea about life and a different feeling.  I think that just sums up how I feel about piano, and how I feel it can truly change someone's life, change the way they feel and change the way they see the world around them."

I like how the person who was studying medicine wanted to be ready to save a life and how Anastasia wants to be prepared to change a life.  They are driven to make a difference.  We each can make a difference in our own way.

(Excerpts taken from the Deseret News, January 8, 2016, Article by Maddie Swensen)