Choices+and+Consequences

Choice: Choosing to learn to play guitar. Positive Consequence: Found my passion in life.

Back in the summer between 6th and 7th grade, I mentioned to my mom that I wanted to learn how to play guitar. Back at the time this was just a small idea that I thought would be cool to try out and benefit me in a few ways, but the consequence from learning how to play guitar was enormous. I not only enjoyed playing guitar so much, but it became my life. Ever since guitar my life has been revolved around music, which before guitar my life and music weren’t connected a lot, but I started to really appreciate music after guitar. Guitar soon became the only thing I did besides hang with friend, not video games, just playing and practicing. I soon found that I had found my true passion in life, music, specifically guitar. One little choice changed my life.

Choice: Not to practice for my guitar lessons. Negative Consequence: Being unprepared for my lesson.

This has happened a few times. Sometimes I’ll be busy during a week and when I get the chance to sit down with my guitar I end up playing for mere enjoyment instead of practicing for my lessons or even for myself. So this choice is usually supported by the regular laziness of a person who is tired and wants to do what they want to do, not focus and be productive. Then my guitar lesson will come and I will struggle to make ends meet and get some book work done before the lesson, either way it could have been better if I had practiced more. So I’ll feel disappointed in myself for letting my teacher down and I’ll feel disappointed because I could have practiced and have gotten better but instead I was lazy and did nothing and wasted time. That is the negative consequence from the choice of being lazy and not practicing.