With life so busy, I find it hard
to dedicate time to hobbies. When is there a spare minute in the day to dabble
in something that a dictionary defines as ‘an
activity done regularly in one's leisure time for pleasure’? Sad really. Isn’t
life supposed to have some time for pleasure?
Well, I have been forced, well not
really forced, but encouraged back into one of my hobbies recently. My parents
are downsizing so my mother’s grand piano has come to me. It is such a beautiful, elegant instrument.
I can’t believe it now sits in my sitting room.
Now, I used to play piano quite well.
In fact at one point I was tossing up whether to go to university or to the
conservatorium of music. However, I attended enough eisteddfods to know I was
never going to be good enough to be a world-class concert pianist. Me being me, if I wasn’t going to do it
perfectly, I wasn’t going to do it at all (I have matured a little since then).
So, I stopped cold turkey and didn’t play for nearly twenty-five years!
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| Me playing a Steinway (!!!) at the Bangalow Hall |
Then, about a year ago, Mum and I
were discussing her move to a smaller home and she said, ‘The grand will
be yours.’ Well, I had to deserve the instrument, didn’t I; so back to piano
lessons I went.
I completed my grade five exam
through Trinity College last Thursday. I believe I did okay. I did muck up a
couple of sections in my pieces that I’d never mucked up before which was
pretty frustrating, but I’m trying hard not to be too much of a perfectionist
and enjoy the process (I read somewhere that that was important).
It’s so nice to be able to play
again. Nice to have a hobby that
is so vastly different to everything else I do in my day.
Do you have a hobby you love or one
you’d love to try but still haven’t had a change to jump into? I’d love to hear all about it.
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