back then, back now

I just remembered how playing the guitar makes my back hurt. After several years, thanks to the very ‘motivational’ talk I had with Chad, I’ve decided to pick up one and start studying it again. I never was good before and I don’t think I can be any better now. I know this because after attempting to play a Jack Johnson song for an hour, my back started aching again and I can’t seem to sit up straight anymore. I had to stop. The guitar is a bit small so I had to slouch whenever I play sitting. Maybe next time, I should have it slung across my back and just remain standing.

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Is it never too late to learn a musical instrument? I think I’ve tried almost all the basic ones. I had piano lessons as a child. I was given a guitar when I was 10 or 11. We got a drum set when I was in college. I tried studying, but I never got to be better at any of them. I like music a lot. Music just don’t like me. Haha… I just didn’t have the ear for it. I remember the feedback I got from my piano teacher back then; she said I was able to play all the songs because I memorized all the key combinations and the intervals upon which I should press them, and not because I understood the music. That is probably why I became an engineer. If only my logic can play good music.