Musical talent - Creative Nonfiction in The Ink Well: Prompt #3

Greetings dear and beloved community in this new nonfiction story community I want to bring you the story of a friend, but first I want to share a thought I don't know if you have heard it.

Music is the melody of a soul, navigating a sea of feelings.

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Paola is a 32 year old girl, born in the city of Cumaná in Venezuela, she is the third daughter of a beautiful marriage, since she was a child she began to notice that she had talent for music, when Paola was in elementary school, she participated in various cultural events that the school did, The same thing happened when she started high school, but when she started college was when she met those who months years later would form her reggae music group, during the time she was attending college she was seeing life differently and with some influence from some of her friends who only listened to reggae.

During the years he was studying at the university, his brother when he was arriving at the apartment where some men surprised him to rob him and after that he ended up killing him. The death of her brother was a hard blow for Paola and her family.

At that time when Paola brother died, the older sister was not living with them, since she had married several years before and currently has 2 children, so everything fell on Paola and she had to be strong to help her parents, her friends helped her to have strength and be able to move forward, she says that there were times when she thought she would go crazy from so much pressure, because her parents went into a sadness and did not even want to eat, during those times of difficulty she took refuge in music and reading.

Years later, they sold the apartment and bought a house in a safer urbanization and that same year Paola graduated with a degree in education mention in English, she created a reggae group with her friends, the first year all they did was rehearse and Paola began to compose her own music, when she entered the following year, they became known and were gaining some popularity in the city.

Months later when the date of the founding of the city of Cumaná was approaching a man approached her when she was in the park, according to the man a friend had shown him a video of a group playing for a community of the city and recognized her, The man introduced himself as a government official in charge of hiring the groups that would play on the night of the city's foundation day, at that moment the man hired the group to play on the day of the event, she could not believe that the group was hired to play in an event that is very important for the city.

The next day they met with the man who had hired them to find out if they would pay him and how much they would give him for playing, since many of the members of the group were going through financial problems.

As she was telling me the story a tear came out of her eyes, revealing the sincerity of her words, in my mind only vague a thought that I did not dare to say and I remained without speaking, after that everything was silent, for about 5 minutes we just looked at each other and then I broke the silence telling her that cheer up, are they still playing? With a smile she told me that they were playing and that they were playing in a bar this weekend and that if I wanted to go and listen to them play, without thinking I told her that of course I wanted to go, she smiled again and then she told me to wait for you on Friday at the entrance of the bar at 9 pm.

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When the day arrived and the agreed time for her and her group to play, I showed up at the place and she was certainly at the entrance waiting and when we were finally in front of each other she told me, thank you my friend for coming, your presence strengthens me, after that when we entered after 2 minutes the entertainer introduced them and my biggest surprise, they were phenomenal, all the people who were present stood up to applaud, the bar was full and everyone was happy.

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