They laughed when I sat down to play the piano.

They Laughed at me when I played the Piano.
      Let me begin to say that they do not anymore.  However when I first started taking lessons the neigbors were criticizing my dad for paying for my lessons. 
Remarks like,  your wasting your time., your wasting your money, your son will never
practise , etc.  They were wrong. And while their children were playing baseball I was praticing the piano. I never regret it.  Piano lessons helped get me through my childhood.
That is another  story I will blog after this one.  So what is the message in this paragraph I
just wrote. very simple., do not listen to anybody that tells you you can not or should not do 
something you want to do, no matter how dreamy it sounds like, do it. You only live once,
enjoy it and give  it everything you have. 
   It is very important to add that during the period of time it takes to get to your goal,
you will experience failures, rejections, people laughing behind your back etc.
        I will give you an example.. I started to play the piano at age 6.   At age 12
I was accompanying singers in the catskill mountains in new york state.  It was hard,, and I was under a lot of pressure.  I traveled from gig to gig with some of the entertainers.
Let me add that the catskill mountains was a great training ground for musicians to learn how to read and sight read.  Getting back to my example of how cruel people can be,,
I was 13 yrs old and i had to accompany a woman singer I never rehearsed with before.
She handed me the music and I had to play it. I was doing ok until someone asked her for a request. She told me to fake it.  She started to sing but I could not follow her, nor find her key.  The entire audience started to boo at me.  I felt terrible. I will never forget it.
I left in tears, my dad who drove me to the job and back told me these exact words.
Richard someday you will be able to read and accompany anybody, People will kiss your feet to have you work for them. And he was right. I commanded a lot of respect in the following years, I learned how to transpose, sight read, arrange, fake tunes, conduct,
program music , play any style, play left hand bass while playing melody, I learned
religous music, all kinds of international music, learned how to contract, how to 
build stage presence, how to make an audience laugh and jump to their feet, and the list goes on.    I did this with determination that someday I will get the last laugh, And I did.
I completed my mission and I will never look back.
For those of you who face similar circumstances where people are telling you you can not or should not do this, tell them to mind their own business. I like many of you continue to dream. I am at the age where I would like to travel  and write. I am trying to develop a career as a Positive thinker expert
,song writer, funny podcaster and life coach. Its a dream,, but I am going to reach it.
And yes people are laughing at me including my wife, who is has been telling me,, what are you doing?
you can not make money writing blogs, making videos, making funny podcasts,
You should see a doctor, go get a job working at publix. 
        Fellow dreamers, keep dreaming. It is a long process to get to where you want to be.
Rome was not built in a day.  We all have blocks that we need to remove. These blocks are the bad energy that try to invade the good energy. We need to stick together , and this is why I started the youtube channel newamericacd. It is for dreamers like us who do not give up.
Maybe you have a wife, husband or parent that is telling you to get a real job, or do something constructive.  Do not listen to them. Do what you love now. Life is very
short my friends.  We are the real champions. The people that dare to do something, different  and special.
My next  blog I would like to discuss how to change bad energy into good energy.
I will discuss how we all pay dues in life. Many of us had it rough growing up.
An abusive stepmother , which I had or an abusive stepbrother , which I had also.
i was an angry person for many years. Planning on revenge, but I channeled this anger into
a great energy. An energy that will never stop.  

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