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The Past Into The Future – When You Unexpectedly Bump Into Your Ex

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By Agnes LaurensPublished 3 years ago 4 min read
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The Past Into The Future – When You Unexpectedly Bump Into Your Ex
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Walking on the sidewalk, with her phone in her hand, holding her bag with the other hand, it is difficult to see who is coming her way. She was e-mailing one of her clients, which was a very important task to do since she became one of the best violinist in the world and there is no management who is willing to help her feed her career in the right direction, so she does everything alone until today. These managements don't believe in her approach of entrepreneurship.

Sharon Delaway, freckles in her face, red long curly hair and a very small woman, suddenly bumped into her ex-boyfriend of high school when she was on her phone sending a very important message to one of the biggest concert halls in the world. If she blows it up, she can forget her career as a violinist. She will never know what else she would love to do.

Every day, she spends hours practising on her violin. Ninety percent of the time those practise session times are with a lot of frustrations, but in the end, it always turns out good, and she has a performable piece to play. She chooses the programs herself. She loves to pick out the music she loved to play. The last few months she prepares for her debut CD, which will take place within three months. Sharon is so happy to be able to make this all happen.

Her career is going into the right direction. She had to climb several mountains, but she was glad to take these steps to achieve her goals. Lately, she felt incredibly happy. Just because of her career goals going into the right direction. Even though, she still needs to climb mountains, but eventually she will get there.

When walking on the sidewalk, she likes flying through her life, but also stuck in career decisions she needs to make, but doesn't want to make, as she knows a good management will be great to have, but she never found the right one. Still looking for the right fit, her career time is ticking as well, she went to the conservatory at the age of thirty, and at the age of five she started playing the violin, and she knows she needs one to take over the classical music world.

Benny Lettihaut caught up in his favourite magazine while walking on the sidewalk to his rehearsal with clarinettist Sonny Stephenson, early this morning. With his music books under the magazine, about five of them, in his left arm, his phone was ringing at the same time, turning around the corner, he tried to focus on what he was reading and getting his mind on the rehearsal.

His musical friend lived three blocks away from him, and he has a piano Benny loved to play on. Sonny, still living with his mother, Alina Stephenson, was one of the famous pianist of her generation. The older generation was a bit more stiff and traditional in the way of making classical music. Sonny and Benny wanted to change that way, but they always got an angry look of Sonny's mother.

Today Alina gives only a masterclass at the other side of the country. Since her performing retirement, Alina only gives masterclasses to those talented musicians, and not only to pianist, but also to other instrumentalist who deserves a good masterclass. She also believed that instrumentalist should get masterclasses from teachers not her own instrument. You can learn anything from them.

Benny and Sonny could go along improvising, and practising their usual stuff. Benny brought his regular piano books with him, because he also has to rehearse Sonny's bachelors recital with Sonny, which takes place in three weeks. They still need to do a lot of rehearsals before everything goes according to plan. When the boys rehearsals, they start their rehearsal with everything they love to do for about half an hour, so they will be inspired to practise the works of well-known composers.

Sonny wants to become a composer one day. He always loved to improvise, but he barely does that as his mother disapproved it. She is a little bit traditional in that. She also disapproves him being different, and placed him in situations he couldn't be himself, such as walking hand-in-hand with his then boyfriend, or even change himself in a woman when he felt so differently.

His mother, Abayomi Mambwe, who has been born in Zimbabwe. There she met her husband, Dereck Lettihaut, a very charming man from France, who was there in Africa for his charity work. He moved to the USA for his work. They have been married in New York since he got a work visa. Later, they stayed there as Dereck got a green card.

As Benny has been raised in the black neighbourhood, he got all the chances from his parents. He knew his mother was a poor woman living in Zimbabwe. Working all day through the house of her parents, helping her sisters and brothers, going to school walking long kilometres.

Sharon's phone fell onto the sidewalk, all broken, and angrily she took it off the ground. A little bit crying, she tried to resend the e-mail, but her phone died. Sitting on the ground, she looked up to see whom it was. Her ex-boyfriend.

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Agnes Laurens

Agnes Laurens is a writer. She writes for the local newspaper. Agnes lives with her daughters. Writing is, like playing the violin, her passion. She writes about anything that crosses her mind. Follow her on Medium.

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