Forgotten Music

A strum of guitar can be heard at the living room of a western house , a 7 years old boy named Aaron is playing his small guitar happily, at the same time sings a song. Aaron loves to sing and plays his small guitar.  He doesn't care if he's out of tune or he got the wrong chord, to him he just want to enjoy music that's all it matters to him.

 He sings and plays his guitar in front of his family or whenever there are special occasions. Even when he takes a bath or in the streets. Anywhere he goes he always sing and play his small guitar. His parents let him have guitar lessons for him to enhance his skills.

During his 11th birthday, Aaron's parents give him a brand new green guitar. His small guitar is too small for him now. Aaron was really happy on his parent's present to him and started to play it right away. His guitar skills improve, he still get mistake on some chords but not too much like he was a kid. His singing also improve even if he didn't take lessons, he just sing and sing until he improves.

Aaron reach his adolescence age, around 13 years old, he started to found different things to enjoy other than music. Playing video games with his friends, playing sports or hanging out on the mall, leaving his green guitar inside its case beside his closet in one of the corners  of his room and dust is starting to form on it.

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Years has passed, Aaron is already 17 years old. He's slightly muscular, taller than his classmates and has a handsome features. He's now a great soccer player on their high school, and he has forgotten about his guitar and his love for music.

Aaron was walking down the streets going home from school and his soccer practice, the sun is about to set. It's nothing unusual to him, and their practice ended quite early today as they usually finished almost night time especially if soccer season is near.

He enters the park which is his shortcut and safe to walk towards his house when he noticed some street performers lining up in the park. 2 teenage girls singing together with one of them is holding a tambourine. And another is a guy playing a guitar with a girl singing next to him. Aaron watches them perform which made him smile and remember his childhood. He remembers how he plays his guitar and sing, then it struck him. He then started to run, exiting the park and head towards his house.

He reach his house and greeted his mom before heading up to his room. As he enters to his room he quickly looked for his old green guitar. He found the guitar case on a corner next to his closet where he last left it.Thick dust already formed on the guitar case you can't see the lock. Aaron grab the guitar case and lift it up, some of the dust flew off making him cough and wave his hand in front of his face.

Aaron sat on his chair and started to clean his guitar case, his black case shines. He slowly open it revealing his old green guitar slightly dusty due to being inside the case for a long time. He took it out and position it to his lap. He then close his eyes trying to remember what he learned before then strum it. The sound came out is out of tune, Aaron then tries to tune it which he successfully did. 

He tries to strum it again, it's on tune but he can't remember any chords anymore so he grab his old guitar chord book which is inside the case and opens it randomly. He then review some chords and practice it then he repeat the chords then plays it. He stops, it ended good, but something is lacking on his play. He did some small mistakes but that's not what he think was wrong. He heard her mom calling her for dinner and so he place down his guitar on his bed and went to eat dinner along with his parents.

----Next Day---

Aaron sigh as he was down about him playing his old guitar. Last night after the dinner, helping his mom and do his homework he try to play his guitar again. Like the first he got the chords right, but there is still something lack on his play he doesn't know what. He even tries to sing as well but it still has the same outcome so he decided to call it a night. And now he's heading to his school, walking down the street, trying to think what is missing to him right now.

All day he was thinking about music, how he can play his guitar just like before. It took him almost the whole day to think about it but nothing came up with him. Soccer practice ended up early again and he's now walking back home. He felt bad to himself for forgetting about something he give efforts and something he loves so much, he felt so bad that he forgot music. He was about to give up, but then when he reach the park he saw the street performers again.

This time Aaron watch their whole performance, listening to them, watching them perform. By listening to them he can tell that they are good singers and musicians. He wonders how they can do that. He then focused on the guy who's playing the guitar with a girl singing next to him. They were smiling as they perform and then the guy strum a different chord which made the song out of tune. The audience heard it but nevertheless he and the girl just continue like nothing happened which surprises Aaron.

He continue to watch them until they finished and took a break. He then walk over to the guy who was playing his guitar. He asked him how they can continue to perform even though they made a mistake plus they continue to smile. The guy laugh and smile at Aaron and answer him.

"Simple. It's because we're having fun. We don't care what other people will say, as long as we can perform, we can sing and perform with all our heart out. We are here because we wanted to be, to share our passion and to enjoy ourselves and have fun."

The guy's words struck Aaron and made him remember his younger self who loves to sing and plays his guitar no matter how out of tune he was. He now then realized what was missing to him. He wasn't having fun when he was playing his guitar last night. Aaron smile and thanked the guy and quickly run towards his house again.

When he reach his house he went straightly to his room which confuses his mother. He then grab his guitar and stood up in the middle of his room. He took a deep breath and then strum his guitar and started to sing like there is no tomorrow. He plays his guitar without looking at the chords, he's just playing with all his heart, enjoying himself even if there are wrong chords or his voice crack sometimes. A smile appear on his face as he laugh and finished his crazy performance inside his room. He lays down to his bed with his guitar beside him, smiling as he finally found the missing piece. The forgotten music has remembered and returned.