Maddie, I started piano lessons when I was 5 only because my grandmother taught piano I am sure!
As I got older I got sick of it and switched to dance. I was teaching ballroom dancing at age 17, but was quickly taken out because this was something for the new order and I was doing too well. Not to be done in this system of things.
I also loved art and had my work on display but was allowed only 2 years of it in highschool and had to switch to Homec which I hated. You know....lame stuff like sewing. To this day I hate a sewing machine.
So in the long run I feel my god given gifts were stifled......to this day I feel cheated. I am almost 50 and am no longer limber enough to dance the way I use to, and I would have to start over with art, but don't ya know I can sew a straight seam on a sewing machine.
r.