Regrets on Quitting

well, you certainly can play again if you choose. a younger brother played the piano for a while. was a classical type player.

certain Squires are worth decent money!

there are few bands where i am. the big issue is there are very few, & i mean very few great players around here. i may not be in a band again until i'm in heaven!!!

my brother worked at a major music store for 17 years & knows guitars very well.

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Acoustic guitar for me too… It’s still just hanging around in its little case gathering dust. I also have a cheap electric with amp I never play. I think partly because I hated the process to get those good calluses on the tips of my fingers…Ow! …that and chronic shoulder/upper back pain so I never felt comfortable trying to hold the guitar. I even bought a shoulder strap thinking that would help the back pain. Now at my age there’s really no point (52).

But funny enough every so often I give it a go, but the same stuff I mentioned always seems to happen.

Now you sound like my grandmother. At least four times, yesterday alone, she said "Nobody loves me anymore. Nobody cares."

For a 91 year old, that is very light senility. But I don't think you are quite that old...

I think that I read in one of your posts somewhere that you help to take care of your grandmother. If that is so, then God bless you for that.

No, I am nowhere near your grandmother's age, and I am definitely not showing any signs of senility (very light or otherwise). Instead, I believe that I have a very sound mind in Christ; even as my username might suggest. It is just that my mind is an honest mind...especially in the sense of accurately assessing situations and relationships.

Anyhow, may God's richest blessings be upon both you and your grandmother.

Have a great day.

I have an acoustic guitar but never learned how to 'properly' play it as there are no musicans in my family. I did join an evening class with once to learn but quit because I prefer playing in my own way..by finger picking.

I dont regret it though because if I learned to play it properly and make it my profession everyone would be asking me to play all the time and it would be no fun.

I play it to relax.

I cant think of anything I regret quitting. Ive quit jobs I dont like and wouldnt go back to..there was always a valid reason for quitting something. If something doesnt work it doesnt work no matter how hard you try you cant make a square peg fit in a round hole as the saying goes ...not that Ive ever tried it! Pegs are meant to be hung on a washing line anyway.

No!

Nein.

I started playing both almost 40 years ago. My proficiency in each is something far south of what 40 years of experience might suggest.

I quit volleyball. I started out on the bench, because I had a weak spike (weak jump), but ended the season starting at libero, because I aced at digs and sets, so I was making good progress but didn't go out for the team when the season came back around in 8th grade. I think coach quitting, or moving on to coach elsewhere, had some part to do with that.

Nine?

impossible, alas. seven eight it

I quit volleyball and all sports in middle school, but no regrets.

Martial arts (karate)

C'est la vie!

Knitting. I could have been expert by now if I hadn't quit.