Yielding to life
The turning point of my life was my decision to give up a promising business career and study music.
41.
My parents, although sympathetic, and sharing my love of music, disapproved of it as a profession, This was understandable in view of the family background. My grandfather had taught music for nearly forty years at Springhill College in Mobile and, though much beloved and respected in the community, earned barely enough to provide for his large family. My father often said it was only the hardheaded thriftiness of my grandmother that kept the wolf at bay. As a consequence of this example in the family, the very mention of music as a profession carried with it a picture of a precarious existence with uncertain financial rewards.
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My parents insisted upon college instead of a conservatory of music, and to college I went-quite happily, as I remember, for although I loved my violin and spent most of my spare time practicing, I had many other interests. Before my graduation from Columbia, the family met with severe financial problems and I felt it my duty to leave college and take a job. Thus was I launched upon a business careerwhich I always think of as the wasted years.
43.
My whole point is that it was not for me. I went into for money, and aside from the satisfaction of being able to help the family, money is all I got out of it. It was not enough. I felt that life was passing me by. From being merely discontented I became acutely miserable. My one ambition was to save enough to quit and go to Europe to study music.
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