If I measured my level of happiness based on how many times I smile during the day, how many times I adopt a peppy attitude towards the little things, or how few negative thoughts come to my mind in the 16 hours I am awake, I’d probably have to conclude that I am not a very happy individual.
No, this is not another whiny entry on how miserable I am, and how nothing seems to make it better, although I can see why you would think that.
Reality is that I have not reached that point in the past couple of weeks where I feel comfortable in my own skin. However, I think I have found something that is going to add some joy to my thoughts, some spring to my steps, some rainbows to my days. Today, ladies and gentlemen, I had my very first piano lesson!
First off, I got the name off of Craigslist, which is a bit sketchy considering mass murderers have advertised there. So I took a couple of escorts with me, and went to meet a lovely Japanese girl who graduated from Berklee College of Music, and who was as delightful as can be – all despite her having exactly the same name as the main singer of a girl pop band in Japan (weird, huh?). She went over the basics and made me play Ode to Joy with the right hand, then with the left hand. I was in heaven! I had so much fun!
To top it all off, she said I could email her a few songs (by… say, Taylor Swift, maybe?) and she would arrange a piano accompaniment for them so I could sing along to her songs as I played. Isn’t that wonderful??? She also showed me that she has the score to “Because of You” by Kelly Clarkson, of which, of course, I only know the Reba McEntire and Kelly Clarkson country version. But I told her to keep it in my repertoire to revisit at a later date.
It was the most fun I have had since my trip to Washington DC for my anniversary. What can I say, it was just a delightful way to get me out of my blues.
“Thank you for the music!” — ABBA
ina
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