Sunday, April 6th, 2008
This afternoon, I decided to sit down and play the piano. It's a great piece called, "I Stand All Amazed" which was arranged by Sally deFord for a choir. I started playing and a depressing thought came to mind, not about the piece, but about the fact that I can play the piece with ease.
My parents paid for me to take piano lessons for about 11 years! I loved every minute of it! Of course there were plenty of weeks that I didn't practice so I developed a talent for sight reading so that it would sound like I practiced all week.
Several people have told me to continue with it and take it in College/Univeristy. I didn't though. I didn't even get to finish a semeter of University!
I'm grateful that I can play the piano! It came in handy when I stayed home and taught out of my home to help bring in an income. But with Mat's schedule now, I can't teach anymore.
My depressing thought was that I'm not really doing anything with my talent. I mean, I never wanted to be a concert pianist, but I would love to accompany someone or play with someone or in an orchestra or something that will challenge me to keep getting better at it.
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There are probably a ton of Olsens out there, but we're the ones that are half Canadian and half American, hence, CanAm Olsens. If you want to dig deeper, I'm also Filipino (which is really an asian Heize 57) and Mat is a caucasian Heize 57 (Welsh, Swedish, Scottish, English, etc.). So what does that make our kids? CanAms.
