It took the birth of my daughter to get a little introspective about my life and the accomplishments in them. I look at her, barely in her third week of life and imagine all that she will learn, accomplish and teach. I, then look at myself approaching 30 and reminisce about the things that I just didn’t get done.
Prime amongst a growing list of things that I haven’t and probably will never get done is being able to play the guitar. Music, in general, has always been a big part of my life. I enjoy listening to it. Singing, albeit badly sometimes, to it and generally being surrounded by it. What better way, I thought, for me to get more involved in music than to play an instrument myself.
I began taking guitar lessons shortly after coming to the US in the early 90’s and tried for close to a year to get my head around all the chords and notes. For one reason or another, I just never managed to get anything going. I later tried to learn on my own and needless to say that went less swimmingly.
There are, of course, many other things that I haven’t had a chance to accomplish, but I’m not going to declare a loss in those yet. I’m still convinced that I can learn to ski given some time on the slopes and being so close to a ski mountain it seems like a shame not to be able to do it.
It is interesting how a life changing event like the birth of your child can make you consider things that went unconsidered just months prior. 
Cheers