Everything Else Is Secondary
Yesterday night I went to Sweet Home Music, a music school at Fortune, and talked to a receptionist about taking guitar lessons. It'll cost 6600 baht for 12 hours (so roughly 3 months). Plus I'll have to pay 300 baht for the new student fee and 350 baht for the textbook. It gets cheaper if I can find other friends to take the lesson with me, but as of now, I'll be taking private lessons.
These days I've been incredibly motivated to pick up new hobbies that I've always wanted to try but never got around to do in the past because I kept procrastinating or have no money. Anyway, guitar was something I always wanted to learn. I've tried teaching myself at Penn State and remembered a few chords but I still have problems strumming and with rythem in general. I also haven't practiced so all I remember now is the C chord.
Liz also e-mailed me a commencement address by Steve Jobs at a university. I thought that what he said fits how I feel perfectly right now. Here's a few excerpts of what he said:
"You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life."
"Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle."
"No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."
These days I've been incredibly motivated to pick up new hobbies that I've always wanted to try but never got around to do in the past because I kept procrastinating or have no money. Anyway, guitar was something I always wanted to learn. I've tried teaching myself at Penn State and remembered a few chords but I still have problems strumming and with rythem in general. I also haven't practiced so all I remember now is the C chord.
Liz also e-mailed me a commencement address by Steve Jobs at a university. I thought that what he said fits how I feel perfectly right now. Here's a few excerpts of what he said:
"You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life."
"Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle."
"No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."
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