Repeater Diaries - NEET

December 19th , 2021

Dear Diary ,

Was not in a mood to write you for a long time because as we approach to the end of this year , my days are more or less the same . Manhusiyat zyada sunne ko mili hai as compared to kuch aachi khabar. I did not want to bore you with more or less the same activities I do everyday. All of this is so boring and at the end of the day , when I finally get some time for myself , I do not have strength to repeat all the work I did earlier to you. The idea itself is ..uh BORING . I know I started to write you in the first place to repot to you my daily activities but theek hai. 

Something about pandemic - 

We will be witnessing the third wave's peak of Omicron variant around February 2022 .This one is more transmissible when compared to the delta variant which was the reason of second wave in India. I wish we could get rid of this curse sometime in near future . But for now , we have to face the wrath of mother nature . Kacchre ka safaya horha hai (the litter is being cleaned by her )

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Anyways , I was asked to play piano in an Inter- divisional Sports cum Cultural Competition on 25th of December . At first I was very enthusiastic about it but as the time is approaching I do not feel like performing . I do not have a single certificate in the recognition of my piano playing . I started learning it when I was in grade 9th . As a flex of course lol. But soon I become addicted to it . One thing I would like to mention over here is that I am a self taught pianist . Not like a proper pianist pianist but an intermediate one . I think I should attach my video playing one of the songs here . What do you think ;) 

One thing I learned while learning how to play a piano was that good things take time. You can apply this fact to any field of your life . Be it some extra curricular , academics or otherwise . I cannot explain my joy in words to you when I learnt my first piano piece . It was Fur Elise , by Beethoven , the first movement .  But along with it comes frustration , 9 out of 10 times I was like - I cannot do this , This is so *ucking complex and hard . How do these people move their fingers in like weirdest patterns and can use both hand and the same *ucking time ? THESE PEOPLE ARE .. I DON'T KNOW ...???MAY BE A *UCKING WIZARD OR SOMETHING ..XD

I knew so is not the case and I would have to go through a long period of time to master this skill. I did not know how much time . I was patient . Piece by piece , I saw some sort of improvement in me . A funny thing though , I used to judge my improvements based on the reaction I got from the entire school . And that too only the students , not the teachers lol

( My school has a really small population , like 29 to 30 students in a class )

In no time , (as for me though ) I started to have my way with both the hands . Earlier , my hands would go on in the pain mode as soon as I thought of touching a piano itself . But now , after almost 6 to 8 months , I could play 3 to 4 songs on my own . Both right and left hand . A novice is always advised to master the right hand first and then move on to the left hand . It is reasonable enough. But so was not the case for me . I was pretty much fascinated by the idea of using my both hands for the purpose. Why? because I could flaunt it in front of my classmates . 

Anyways . My friends and juniors and seniors and in fact some of the teachers were awestruck by my playing (except for the music teacher lol)

I remember , one day , I was playing chura liya hai tumne jo dil ko ( a very famous bollywood retro song . ) Dance and music room were on the same floor in my school. And the moment I started to play , the dance teacher came for what seem like rushing into the music room and the look she had on her face . She did not speak a word to me but I could see the admiration on her face . The admiration of not only playing a song , but playing it beautifully with perfect timing. If you would have ever encountered any music or dance teacher ever in your life , you would know that rhythm and the perfect balance of beat count is more important to them when compared to the life itself XD and their she stood , for sometime until the principal's saga chela came to her and told - " Principal ma'am's calling for you ". It was not the first time someone admired me for playing , but she gave me the kind of appreciation I was looking . And that motivation , my dear diary , could make you  conquer any skill in your life . I am not kidding .

My dream was to make my crush fall in love with me - kinda piano performance but sadly I wasn't able to do that in my school. Let us hope I could do something about it in college .lol

If you ever tried to play a piano , you would know that it is really easy to master the basic right hand lead (mind you , I said only EASY ) but anything ranging from easy to impossible ( yes impossible . LOL . Impossible to us normal humans , not for a prodigy ) on the left is son of a bish . It hurts. It *ucking hurts man. But eventually you will get used to it . Just like I did and am working on ( I could play chords and three to four arpeggios ).

In the end it doesn't matter diary. I started it as a flex . But eventually I realized that music is a gift . Did you ever acknowledged what magic can 7 notes of piano can do ? Literally, each and every song in this world is made out of these 7 notes . Isn't it amazing ? All the compliments and awe struck faces are still there in my mind . Each and everyone of them . I learnt how to respect music , I acknowledged the gift of hearing (although it becomes very frustrating sometimes to hear your piece again and again :0 ) Might sound Shakespeare-y but it is the ultimate reality.

Aaj ka gyaan smaapt 

Should I show you one of my piano pieces to you ?

Signing off 

Nays