The earliest memory I can think of is from when I was about 4 and a half years old. I was in Montessori, which is like Pre-K, and I was waiting to go on stage for our little "graduation" performance - the last performance I was in before going to Kindergarten at a new school. I distinctly remember wearing a white shirt with big puffy sleeves that made me really itchy and uncomfortable. I kept fidgeting, waiting to go on stage to do the macarena, hoping the sleeves wouldn't bother me during the actual performance. And I was so nervous - I was placed at the very front! I remember not wanting to mess up and to not embarrass myself, or my parents. Then I remember the performance went by super fast and went really well and then I was off to change for the next number/act I was in.
When I FIRST recalled this memory, I was going to say that I'm nothing like that person now. But the more I think about it, the more I see resemblances in myself and the way I was back then. I am quite a fidgety person and I always get nervous before every performance, even still, though I've been doing musical and dance performances ever since fifth grade. I still feel those same emotions before each one. It's funny how that I can still see similarities in myself from the little kid I was all those years ago. Of course I've changed since then am not the exactly same person I was, but I am not totally disconnected from the person I was back then.
