What we take with us when we go

[sillypumpkins]

I have a fun one on skills retained.. my son when he was six wanted to play the piano and it looked like an urgent thing as he was talking about it all the time. A friend of mine had a piano she was not using really and agreed to get it in a pickup truck and get it to us. We found a music student who tutored my son who soon learnt the notes and read music. It lasted bout three months then the child said that’s it, I’m done with it. We tried to get him to stay with it one more month but nothing doing, so we shoveled the piano back with many thanks to my friend.  Then my son said ´ I want to play the violin » so we said, it’s a very, very difficult instrument, we shall have to rent one, then have many lessons but he said I will learn, I will. Since he was dyslexic and was really struggling at school, we thought perhaps we should try this, it might help. So a lovely woman from an orchestra accepted to give him lessons once a week once we had rented a violin. He was supposed to practice of course during the week. The first week even though I reminded him to do so, he obviously didn’t. Came the 2nd lesson and preparing myself to have him embarrassed by lack of practice, he breezed through two pieces and his teacher was thoroughly  excited and said let’s skip lessons and check him into week 7. You guessed it, no practice, and each week he was breezing through things. After about three months he said that was it. There was no way to change his mind. We said goodbye to his teacher who nearly burst into tears. She said but he is this really remarkable student, really gifted. To this day I have never told her what was going on.  He later on said he wanted to play the guitar and we said to him, find a way to earn some money and buy yourself one. lol

He was in a band in high school, has this wonderful sense of music for sure but in this life he wanted to be visual and has become crew for films. It’s a struggle as very difficult to make a living this way but, thats exactly what he aimed for, and yes, violin was not for this life

What a fun little anecdote. Thanks for sharing your stories, flo. I especially got a kick out of your painter one ahaha