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Is it failure or minute success?
Left, right, then together.
I put down learning the keyboard as one of my hopes and aims for the year for a number of years consecutively.
Then when it came to the end of the year, surprise surprise, I struck it off as a not-done-yet.
After almost a decade I got rid of it completely.
We (my friend Gen and I) set ourselves 10 hopes and aims each year, not resolutions but things we wouldn’t mind doing, and we have about a 50% success rate. I had had enough of writing it, kind of knowing it was going to end in the incomplete bin.
Get a keyboard
Believe it or not, there were some years I added this hope even without having the very thing I need to be able to fulfill it.
My uncle had purchased a very heavy but very high quality Korg keyboard long long ago and when I sounded my enthusiasm to learn the keys he parted ways so I could have it.
However I moved a few times and the Korg would end up in my old place, and then I would jot down this aim with the first idea of it making me go and drag to it to my new abode.
To be fair, it did work and I would go and single handedly carry the beast up and down stairs and load it into my car to get it where it needed to be.
