The Fourteenth Letter to Myself

Dear Jing, this is the fourteenth letter written to you in 2017.

Suddenly remembered a long time ago has been very eager to learn a musical instrument, initially envious of other people to play the piano, ten fingers between the jump played a song of wonderful music, very much want to learn, but also stuck in reality. In fact, I also feel that I can't learn well, when I felt that my fingers can't look better than others, I don't understand that I don't have a pair of good-looking hands can't learn the piano. I drew a cage for myself. In fact, this is a kind of stereotyped thinking. After that, it slowly faded away. About a year ago, I fell in love with the guqin, a traditional musical instrument, and hoped that one day I would be able to learn the guqin, but initially I thought that the guqin and guzheng were the same thing. Sometimes when I walk past the guqin store in the old city, I would stop for a long time, maybe it's been my wish for a long time, and now my wish has come true!

Dali is indeed a blessed place for me! In August, I came to Dali to study traditional culture, and slowly came into contact with the guqin learning, I suddenly realized that do not give yourself a limit, do not deny yourself, because everything is possible! Wherever your heart desires, you will achieve it! Of course, you can't be blind, if your wish is too far away, you have to put in absolute effort. The so-called stereotyped thinking is not only for others, other things, but also for myself. There is so much more I need to learn, and it has always been my mindset that life is so much better! That's probably one of the reasons I've been more fortunate! And of course I've always believed now that life is just so good! Of course I still need to study harder to make myself better! I need to study harder to get better, and it's good to get better every day!

On the second day of learning the guqin, I learned two simple pieces, and learned to recognize the sheet music. In fact, the guqin is very simple to start, and my fingers still hurt when practicing. I can't reach this state of mind at the moment, so I have to practice slowly! After practicing for more than ten days recently, I finally communicated with my instrument and my fingers don't hurt anymore. I think learning to play the piano requires communication and enlightenment, so other things should be the same! It's just a matter of finding it with a good eye, it's just a matter of time, which may take a long time, but it's definitely worth it!

When I was practicing the piano I was silently sighing: I'm getting old! Though I don't want to admit it. The ability to learn and remember is no longer as good as the kids or the younger ones. It's not discouraging, it's just that I still need to work harder than others to be able to do it, and it's also gradual, I guess! At least, I am at this time to seek knowledge, rather than as before the general muddle for the sake of money and try to make progress, although I can not say that that is absolutely not right, but at least I have less of the heart of the chase, and now has said goodbye to a long time of impatience, this is also the fate of it! I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do that, but I'm going to be able to do it!

I was thinking how I was so lucky. Originally I thought I just contact some knowledge of the guqin, and after that is this section of the edge, who knows I have such a lucky, have their own bed of guqin, she is very beautiful, she is chaotic style, black contains vermillion red, Ming and Qing dynasties room beam old cedar wood hacking system. It was bought to me by my father, Gong Oh to be exact. So I am so lucky to have such a pair of parents who are so good to me, a harmonious family, I think I should have repaired a lot of blessings in my past life, this life will be so lucky, thanks to give so much to me, I will definitely work hard to learn, cultivate my body and mind, and work harder to ****create our beautiful home. At the same time, I must always be grateful, do more good deeds, and accumulate blessings for my family.

Once again, the world is as big as your heart. I'm sure you'll be able to achieve whatever you want, as long as you have a clear wish and work hard to realize it, anything is possible! So my next step is to practice the guqin and cultivate my body and mind with my chaos, hello partner! Let's become better together!

Here's a wish: one day I'm going to make a bed of guqin with my own hands!

Here's a wish: one day I'll make my own guqin!