impatient

So I hate not being good at things instantly….In fact I often give up on a lot of things because I can’t do them instantly..

Last night was a classic example of my impatience.  I went to my “3rd” ever guitar lesson and came home annoyed that I couldn’t instantly play the song that the guitar teacher had picked out for me to learn.  I felt like a complete failure that I couldn’t even play the most basic of songs…I was really quite down on leaving the lesson.

But then I remembered it was only my 3rd lesson..I am not meant to be any good yet..that I am going to lessons to learn things like this so I can get good, and the only way I am going to get good is to practice.

I think because I have on and off strummed guitars over the years that I thought I was actually better than I am…But I realised last night that I am actually a complete beginner.  I realised that I can’t actually play the guitar and that it is going to take a lot of work for me to be able to do it.

But I am not going to give up…As I said I am going to learn to play the guitar well even if it takes me until I am 100 years old.

I just have to accept that I am not going to be a great guitarist in a matter of weeks…that it is probably going to take me months if not years before I become anything like a competant player.  But here is what I have to remember

I will get there!

How cute

Izzy does the cutest thing at the moment…She will see you sitting somewhere on your own and will come over lay her head on you and go “aaaawwww” and then smile and walk away….

It melts my heart every single time she does it…

I guess thats the thing about having kids though, just when you think it isn’t possible to love them more than you actually do, they surprise you with something that just takes a little bit of weight off your soul.

 

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