Strings of Life: How Music Shaped My Life’s Symphony

A Symphony of Choices

Alex Dumitru
7 min readAug 26, 2023
Photo by Providence Doucet on Unsplash

Music has been a passion of mine since I was a child. I still vividly remember how, at the age of 5, I would ask my parents to buy me cassette tapes of my favorite bands (to name just a few Romanian bands from the late 90s: 3 Sud Est, Animal X, Andre). I don’t think any of the kids I knew back then had as many tapes as I did, and I doubt…

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Alex Dumitru

Software Engineer | Part-Time Writer | Read, Write, Learn, Repeat |