Turn Loose the Mermaids

I live, I breath, I sing. That's my thing. I live for music.
Since I was a little girl I knew that, I loved to sing songs, mostly in English, without even know that language. Whenever I felt nervous or sad, I just listened to my old casettes or sang the songs in my head and without noticing, I felt calm again. My favourite song to sing was 'My Heart Will Go On', fron Titanic, a movie thar I haven even seen complete because my parents didin't allowed me to. I sang in my shower, in my room, everywhere I could. Once I decided to sang it for my mother, after my bath. I was 10 years old I thing, or maybe younger, i don't know... whatever, the thing is that I sang it to her and I thought I did beautifully and I was very pround of myself, but my mum didn't think so: she said 'Oh it's ok, pretty good' and that was it. I don't know why, but since that momento on, I thought that 1) I didn't have the 'beautiful' voice I thought I had and 2) Everybody can just sing the way I do, everybody has the music within.
I grew up believing that things and because of thar, I kept my 'talent' just for myself. Time went by, I was 17 and I was at a friend's house. We were doing a project and I was SO bored that I decided to sing along with the radio. I didn't say 'OK, let's sing' I just started singing without really thinking about it. My friends were 'WHAT! DO IT AGAIN' and I was wtf I 'm just singing. They said I did it pretty good, that I should try to sing in the school choir. I didn't want to do that HAHA. I'm VERY shy and, what whould I do such a thing? There were many other people that could just sing as good as me. My friends insisted and I decided to give it a try. I went to my school's church, they gave me a song to sang and so did I. The acoustic in that church was amazing! And I shined over there, I felt it, and by 'shine' I don't mean 'oh I'm such a great singer'. I felt I shined. I felt bright, I felt complete, I felt... myself. I stayed in the choir until the very last day of school and half a year after that, I started singing lessons. In that place I learned tecniques, and I learnt a lot of things about my voice. Nowadays I feel much confident that I felt before about my voice. I have to lear how to believe in myself. Believe that I'm special, that I have a talent, and that I can archieve many goals if I decide to take a risk ang go for more, not staying in the safe side. Because this time I have nothing to lose, and everything to win. It's amazing how just one comment, just a couple of words could change my whole world and that after such a long time, they are still chasing me. Not everyboby can sing the way I do, and I have a beautiful voice. I just have to love it a little bit more ;)