The End of Dreams

I have always had this dream of learning the guitar. I would fantasize that I had become a pro at playing the guitar and have become all cool and a total babe with the guitar slung on one shoulder, chewing gum, messy hair, walking on the streets with that brooding solitary look which one finds ooohh-so-attractive. A part of such day-dreaming has also been about playing “Eleanor” for my friends and playing so well that all of them become moon-eyed and keep thinking “Oh my God…she is sooo COOL!!” Well I know these are all superfluous reasons for learning the guitar and maybe just jaded versions of my dreams as a teenager…but whatever.

So after much procrastinating etc…I decided to join this class which is conducted once a week. The first Saturday I went there, I was turned away because they didn’t have a spare guitar. The second Saturday I entered the class only to be surrounded by around 10 kids aging anywhere between 6 – 16. I went…WHATT!! I mean I thought the guitar class would be full of some really awesome types, but all I could see as far as my short-sightedness would permit me, were masses of human bodies reaching anywhere between my waist to my shoulder. That was the first dip in my enthusiasm level to learn the instrument.

Thereafter I was given this really shiny red guitar which I held on to awkwardly and I was shown to my group (the beginner’s group). Now my group consisted of 2 small kids and when I say small, I mean really small (when they slung the guitar on their shoulders, the guitar seemed taller than them!!..get the picture?) and a grandfatherly uncle! I again went…WHAT (second downer)!! Then the tutors…who were really..REALLY bad. They paid absolutely no attention to our group! I kept sitting there with the guitar for an hour and fifteen minutes while the two kids in my group kept fidgeting, fighting, whining and the grandfatherly uncle kept looking on patiently at the rest of the class. It was so putting off and torturous that I decided “No more guitar classes for me”.

How the dreams of a lifetime come to an end so abruptly!....Big HMPH!