So it’s been over a year since I have posted anything onto this website. Crazy, right? In the past year, I’ve dealt with the most difficult thing to my education and also my trumpet playing: COVID-19. When I last posted on this website, COVID was something that nobody even knew about and could have never expected. Since then, I’ve had to learn how to do online school and adapt to COVID-style trumpet playing. I have not had an actual performance in over a year now, and it has been detrimental to my creative flow. However, it has also allowed me to realize a few things about myself.
Throughout this process of adapting to a new style of learning, I found out what my true career path should be. Even when I created this website last spring, I was starting to feel less and less inclined to play my instrument, which is why I added on a Biology minor to my degree. Now, I am fully invested into the biology side of my life because I have decided to finish my undergrad and continue on to grad school for a degree in genetics so that I can become a geneticist. While it is difficult to accept that music is not what I plan on doing anymore, I still love doing it. It has just become extremely difficult to stay passionate for my craft whenever the part that I enjoy the most, performing, has been completely taken out of the picture.
Music has and always will be such an important part in my life, which is why I continue to study music while I’m here at LSU. It would absolutely wreck me if I decided to cut music out of my life completely, and it has been a difficult battle ever since COVID hit. I’m still continuing to take lessons and play my trumpet, but I find myself becoming less and less passionate for it.
Rebekah Hinson 