Experience

     So I'm going to discuss some events in my life that have set the course for what I want to do with myself. I really haven't had to many bad experiences, so these will mostly be good things.

     The first event was playing my first gig. This was back in Dec of 2012 and I was 15 at the time. The gig was at RGs Pub in Haverhill, MA it was a crappy little bar, but for some reason it was packed with people wanting to see us and the other bands, it was a bout 60 or so people, which doesn't seem like a lot but for my first show that seemed like a million ... especially in such a tiny place. I had been playing in a band called NightSlasher for about 2 years at this point and we had worked extremely hard up to this point, then one day our new Bass player asked us about playing our 1st show, he had heard through a friend that a lady was putting something together and still needed a couple more bands so we got on that. It was just a great night, seeing all those people rocking out to the songs that I made was so cool and it just made me realize more than ever that I wanted to play music for the rest of my life. I wasn't really nervous going into it either, I was very prepared and everything felt so natural, my stage presence was so so, but that has improved greatly over the years.

     Another good experience I had was working my first job at Everett City Hall. It was a summer job that I did the past 3 summers and I really enjoyed it. I just did all sorts of odd jobs, whether it be sorting papers, moving boxes, archiving stuff, or making trips to Dunkin Donuts for the office. It was usually pretty easy, there were definitely some tough days where I did some tedious stuff, but my grandfather and one of my best friends also worked there, so it wasn't usually that bad, I learned a lot about responsibility and it helped set me up for getting  more real job at some ... soon hopefully.

     Another cool experience was when I went ghost hunting in the haunted woods. Now this didn't really shape my future or anything, but as a kid I always had an irrational dear of ghosts and the dark for absolutely no reason, it got better over the years, but even as a teen I was still scared. So last year me and all my friends decided to go to Maudslay State Park .. I don't remember where it's located but it seemed like the middle of nowhere. So we all had flashlights and a gps satellite so we wouldn't get lost ... and we even brought a sword. It was very freaky ... nothing paranormal happened, it was definitely very eerie though, it just felt strange. It was unbelievably dark and it was the middle of the night, if we looked behind us where the flashlights weren't shining it was absolute darkness, I have never seen darkness like that. We found all sorts of weird things, like a pet cemetery and an old run down garden and an area in the middle that was completely open for quite a distance  (I guess a house used to be there and it burned down a while ago) so eventually we got lost even though we had the satellite we kept running into dead ends and eventually all of our flashlights died except 2 (we initially had 6) and then the satellite started to die, but luckily we found the exit before that happened (it had less than 10% battery left) so even though the night was really scary it helped me realize that I probably won't have a night as scary as that again so I guess the thought of that and the fact that I faced my fears and came out just fine it helped me get rid of those fears. NOW I CAN SLEEP WITH THE LIGHTS OFF