Prompt: Tell us about a personal quality, talent, accomplishment, contribution or experience that is important to you. What about this quality or accomplishment makes you proud and how does it relate to the person you are?
Since I was young, I have always dreamt of learning how to play an instrument. I always admired those who can play the piano, violin or flute. However, the one instrument that caught my eye was an acoustic guitar. It had a beautiful sound to it, and just about every song can be transposed into one that includes a guitar. When I turned 13, I finally decided to take the chance to buy one, and so I did.
When I finally got my guitar, I was ecstatic and tried to begin playing and learning. I had no tutor or help so I had no choice but to learn it myself. Learning to play however was extremely difficult and there were many occurrences where I was unmotivated due to pain and family problems. Eventually, I would finally put the guitar down and not play it all.
Now, it has been about a year or two since I stopped playing my guitar, and still did not plan on relearning. Instead, I decided to try something new and tryout for the football team. Football tryouts were two weeks away and I had until then to be prepared. I decided to play tackle football to practice until conditioning and was doing well up until I heard a crack when an opposing player tackled me. The unbearable pain only told me that I had broken my arm and could no longer tryout. Eventually I relapsed about how I also gave up on guitar and felt that I could do nothing well other than academics. I felt depressed and apathetic as I was healing from my broken bone.
When I was free from my cast, it was summer vacation and all I did was lay down on my bed. For about a week I would just lie there and occasionally stare at my guitar that has been gathering dust for years. Then one day there was a sudden spark in me that made me want to just give learning to play the guitar one more chance. So on that day I picked it up, went on Youtube, and began to learn a song. Despite the pain I learned each chord one by one and whenever I felt like giving up, I would just tell myself to keep going over and over. After a long six hour session of constant strumming and learning chords, I finally learned the song. I played that same song for the rest of the night as it gave me joy to be able to play an instrument. It gave me the confidence to know that I can do better than just excel in my academics.
Since I was young, I have always dreamt of learning how to play an instrument. I always admired those who can play the piano, violin or flute. However, the one instrument that caught my eye was an acoustic guitar. It had a beautiful sound to it, and just about every song can be transposed into one that includes a guitar. When I turned 13, I finally decided to take the chance to buy one, and so I did.
When I finally got my guitar, I was ecstatic and tried to begin playing and learning. I had no tutor or help so I had no choice but to learn it myself. Learning to play however was extremely difficult and there were many occurrences where I was unmotivated due to pain and family problems. Eventually, I would finally put the guitar down and not play it all.
Now, it has been about a year or two since I stopped playing my guitar, and still did not plan on relearning. Instead, I decided to try something new and tryout for the football team. Football tryouts were two weeks away and I had until then to be prepared. I decided to play tackle football to practice until conditioning and was doing well up until I heard a crack when an opposing player tackled me. The unbearable pain only told me that I had broken my arm and could no longer tryout. Eventually I relapsed about how I also gave up on guitar and felt that I could do nothing well other than academics. I felt depressed and apathetic as I was healing from my broken bone.
When I was free from my cast, it was summer vacation and all I did was lay down on my bed. For about a week I would just lie there and occasionally stare at my guitar that has been gathering dust for years. Then one day there was a sudden spark in me that made me want to just give learning to play the guitar one more chance. So on that day I picked it up, went on Youtube, and began to learn a song. Despite the pain I learned each chord one by one and whenever I felt like giving up, I would just tell myself to keep going over and over. After a long six hour session of constant strumming and learning chords, I finally learned the song. I played that same song for the rest of the night as it gave me joy to be able to play an instrument. It gave me the confidence to know that I can do better than just excel in my academics.