Leaving the Life You Trained For

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life, I have

not known who I am.

I've only known how to be that performer who escapes.

Professional violinist Vijay Gupta grew up performing on the world's biggest stages in order to fulfill his parents' dreams for him. But over time, he buckled under the pressure to play perfectly, and that eroded his love of the violin. Then Vijay found a new audience for his music in homeless shelters and addiction and mental health clinics. And that audience demanded something very different of him.

And what changed for me in Skid Row is that the audiences there did not want a performance. They wanted me. They wanted me to be me. And I realized that maybe the thing that I had to do was to say goodbye to dreams that were never mine. You know, what kind of practice would that be? What would that look like?

On today's show, walking away from your parents' dreams and toward your own. I'm Maya Shankar, a scientist who studies human behavior. And this is A Slight Change of Plans, a show about who we are and who we become in the face of a big change. Vijay and I were actually violin classmates as kids. We attended the Juilliard Pre-College Program in New York City. And while we were there, PBS's Reading Rainbow interviewed us about what it was like to perform in an orchestra. Here's 8-year-old Vijay way back when.

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