#majorette

I don’t understand how people quit or don’t like band. It’s literally one of the best things that’s ever happened to me, and it hurts that my friends are leaving.

It may seem stupid that I’m getting so emotional about something that I still have so many years, and so many opportunities still, as freshman year is ending.

I’m going to be a section leader next year and it scares me that I might forget how to have fun and let loose in band, especially when so many of my friends are leaving it next year.

I just want to make the most of it while I’m here, and it’s hard to think a whole year went by like that.

There’s two things that my band director says before every game, when we’re lining up in parade block and it’s something that I think everyone should hear.

• What makes a band successful? Every single person does their absolute best, all the time.
• Remember who you are, remember who you represent, remember who you want to be.

And some of you may take it as just some stupid band thing, but you have to look past your section, past the band, past the people around you in order to really believe it. You have to look at yourself and tell yourself who you are and who you want to be to make it come true, to do your absolute best all the time.

And this may be why band is so important to me but it really is a family, as stupid as that may sound.

One year during a band potluck some kid said that our majorette at the time seemed like the kind of person to put her fingers a little bit in her mouth when she eats chips and like a minute later she came into the garage where we were sitting and did just that