Think of a musical instrument

[koganbot]

Think of a musical instrument.

What was the first instrument that crossed your mind when I instructed you just now to think of a musical instrument?

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Comments

[koganbot]

This has served as a kind of template for my life -- early success, rest on laurels, slowly fade, start new thing. Sigh.

I don't buy this. Would you really rather be a concert pianist than what you actually are? Not that you can't do both, but aren't you following your genuine inclination when you broaden and grow and let some things slide in favor of others?

I say this in part because (not to oversimplify), one thing that was going on in my years of shooting to be a musician was me trying to evade my talent and my doom, which was that I'm a writer.

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

I got mopey/self-pitying and used "template." I should use the word fear (one of the big fears about my life, not some inevitable or even valid pattern) one that I know is actually (usually) baseless.

I'm very satisfied with not choosing "classical pianist" as a potential career route, and I also know that I can always pick up piano again if I'm so inclined. It's a talent, but not the right doom for me (which is probably also writer).