I've decided to take guitar lessons. It seems like almost everyone I tell asks me why. So I tell them I've kinda wanted to play since forever, and it just feels like something I should know how to do. I explain I don't really want to start a band, or cut an album. I'd just like to be the girl at the party who can pick up the guitar and get things going. Or show up with a guitar somewhere and jump into a jam session. The responses I'm getting?
Waste of time.
Doesn't seem like a good enough reason.
Shouldn't you be writing instead?
Why not just write a few songs and hire a guitarist?
Hey everyone. Fuck off! I'm insanely passionate about everything I do. I happen to think it's perfectly fine, and even a good idea, to have an interest that doesn't blow my brains right out of my head. A little balance is a good thing. I tend toward love and hate at their extremes. So if there's an interest I'd like to pursue as a nice little hobby than what is the big deal?
So what if ALL I want out of playing guitar is to be the girl at the party playing guitar? Isn't it enough I only want to write a novel if it's Pulitzer worthy? Or that I work to be an indispensable promotion-worthy employee? Or that I berate myself if I'm anything less than the most loving girlfriend or loyal friend anyone could ever possibly conceive of? Do I have to have rockstar aspirations, too, to justify an interest in the guitar?
Fuck off. And thanks for the support.
I'll see you at the party. I'll be the girl playing guitar.
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Girl, I feel the same way. I think that's what the guitar is made for; it's a populist instrument that most of the population could be able to play alright, you know? You can't throw a piano in your backseat and go for a picnic in the country, but anyone can shlepp around a guitar and play a little Peter Paul and Mary. It's way better for the tail end of a party then the whole "so... how's your mom/cat/angioplasty/car/?"
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