off to a rocky start
How are all of you? Damn, haven't written in this in a long time...
I was going to bitch about all of the bad things that have happened to me this quarter, but concentrating on the bad is never good. (Just for the sake of update, here's a list: pneumonia, stolen wallet, Zune and bike light all possibly by a stalker, taking midterms WITH pneumonia and dirty DIRTY roommates.)
My grades are okay. I have one A, two B's and one C. I think I've spread myself out too thin, and I've decided to drop all of my activities and stick with just piano.
Okay, okay...this is going to be a big piano post. I can't even begin to describe the passion that's coming back to me. I can barely listen to anything else BUT classical...Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin, Burgmuller, Debussy, Bach...it's all so beautiful.
There were two incidents that really stirred something inside of me that really have stirred my passion. First, while I was practicing on the downstairs piano, a girl sat next to me and just listened. I thought that she was just going to watch me stay for a couple of minutes...but a couple of minutes turned into half an hour and she finally said, "Wow, you play beautifully." I was genuinely embarrassed. She asked if she could pull a chair next to me while I practice. I told her that I was going to practice scales next and she said that she liked how I even played scales. I shrugged and said all right. As I played my scales, she sat down, closed her eyes and started to meditate. When I would press something wrong, she would open her eyes and correct me. It turns out that she had played the piano for years and stopped for a while. What touched me was that she said that I kind of inspired her to start playing again.
The second incident was with my new piano teacher. One day she was shuffling through all of my old piano books and came across my book of Burgmuller's songs. She had me play "La Chase." I told her afterward that I love Burgmuller's pieces because they always seem to tell a story. If you ever listen to "La Chase," you can imagine a fox running away from some hunters, then getting caught and becoming free again. I think when I told her about how I felt about Burgmuller, we had...well...musical chemistry. She took the book to her piano beside me and played all of the songs. Every time she played a song, we would talk about the story popping into our heads. I've honestly never had a conversation like that with someone over music. It was so...inspiring.
Despite all of the bad things that are happening to me right now, meeting my new friends whom I can call family, Dii finally saying, "I love you," and revitalizing my passion for piano has definitely made up for all of it.
