impatient
24 Jan 2012 1 Comment
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!
Jan 24, 2012 @ 18:14:31
Know how you feel! I was like this after my 3rd lesson of kitesurfing – coudl not fly the kite for love nor money. Pretty much gave it up int he car on the way home. Have decided this year to try again but properly this time. As, like you I thought I had soem right to be good at somethign immediately