Playing Piano

You know when you were a child, you've always wanted to play an instrument, only because you liked the way it sounded. Well, when I was a child, I've always loved to play the piano. Even though my parents couldn't afford to give me piano lessons, nor buy me a piano, I still had the passion. I remember how I would always pretend to play piano, even when there was no piano. Looking back at that now, I must've looked ridiculous playing air piano ;) Then 5th grade started, and they offered violin lessons for free at my school. Since it was for free, I decided to give it a shot. I loved the sound it gave, however, I wasn't very much interested in it as I was with piano. I did recitals competitions and all orchestra shows, but I didn't have enough passion about than O did with piano. So when I hit 13 years old, my parents surprised me with the biggest gift I've ever received from them. It was a grand piano. My dad saw how much I loved piano, so he saved up as much as he could to buy me my own piano, and provided weekly piano lessons for me. It was the best gift I've ever gotten from my parents. I took piano lessons for about 3 years, and I must say those 3 years were amazing. Every week, I'd get extremely excited to go to class only because my teacher was awesome. He has taught me a lot about piano, and especially how to listen to the sound through my heart instead of my ears. It's been almost 4 years now since I've taken lessons. It's much harder to keep up with the piano now that I don't have lessons, because the lessons forced me to practice much more before my tests and recitals. Now, I'll only play when I'm free or home from college. Thus, I've lost the touch of playing piano, and I'm not as good as I used to be. I still love it, so maybe one day when I have more free time, I'll take more lessons just to keep me up with it ;)