Follow Your Passion

January 28, 2009 at 10:47 pm Leave a comment

In the process of packing up a house, you run across items that you wonder if you should continue to keep (aka keep storing) or if you should find them a new home. I stopped on a particular item that I have been holding on to for years…my Dad’s guitar. He had kept it from his childhood. I remember when I was in high school he brought it out for the first time. Immediately thoughts ran through my head to learn how to play with his guitar. In high school, I played around with it learning pieces of songs from friends and trying to figure things out on my own. I never took lessons and I never officially caught the guitar bug. Like most teenagers, I was pretty tapped out already with band, advanced classes, swimming, student council, french club, SADD, the list went on and on…

I kept this guitar through all my moves. My Dad passed away almost 10 years ago. Wow, it’s hard to believe it has been 10 years. I have thought of selling the guitar a number of times, but never followed through with it. Finally I came to the realization that keeping the guitar in a closet for my whole life is not suitable for such a neat looking guitar. Even though memories make me want to hold on to it and never sell it, the thought of the guitar never to be played and enjoyed overruled my ties to it.

Today I took it to Guru Guitar in Raleigh. When I walked in, the care and passion of the workers at the store confirmed that I was doing the right thing. Looking in their eyes, you could see their passion for their work. Even though I didn’t find that passion with a guitar, I can relate as I had found it in my camera. Knowing this, I could say a bittersweet goodbye to the guitar knowing it would be in good hands.