Did I ever want to quit the guitar?

We all need to breathe.

I can honestly think of only one time in my life when I stopped playing or practicing the guitar for an extended period of time. It was shortly after I started taking guitar lessons. I think I was 13 going on 14 years of age when I was having lots of difficulty in school and at home. I hadn't yet discovered the guitar as my new voice. The lessons I was having to do, were quickly becoming boring to me. I began to stop enjoying them. I remember that it was a few months of me not picking up my guitar at all. I still went to my lessons, but I never practiced. Then one day, it changed.

My guitar teacher, Tony, asked me why I wasn't practicing my lessons. I told him that I was bored and didn't like reading notes in a book. I had lost the motivation to practice because what I wanted, what I originally started to take lessons for, was to learn how to play the songs I liked. This just wasn't happening. I didn't know enough chords to figure out songs by myself. I struggled to learn how to read n…