I'm 18 years old and I've always loved playing music ever since I was a little kid just plucking at one string on my dad's guitar. It wasn't until I was about 9 or 10 when I started being serious about playing music. The first thing I started actually getting into playing was my harmonica. I got my first harmonica when I was 7. Just like any other kid I didnt know what this thing was or what to do with it. So finally my dad taught me what to do with it not how to play it. Like the basics, stuff like you blow in and out of these little holes. So I started getting the hang of it and then he said there's something called bending a note where you can bend a note down and get bluesy with it. I figured that out and fell in love with it. When I was really listening to the way my pops played his guitar I decided that was the way I wanted to play. I got a guitar for Christmas and had a very hard time with it and almost gave up, but I was taught to stick with something. So I practiced and practiced and practiced and started doing well with it. My pops and I are in a band now called Upland Express.
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Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Oh, never mind. You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they've faded. But trust me, in 20 years, you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked. You are not as fat as you imagine. Don't worry about the future. Or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum.
The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blind side you at 4pm on some idle Tuesday.
Do one thing every day that scares you.
Sing.
Don't be reckless with other people's hearts. Don't put up with people who are reckless with yours.
Floss.
Don't waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long and, in the end, it's only with yourself.
Remember compliments you receive. Forget the insults. If you succeed in doing this, tell me how.
Keep your old love letters. Throw your old bank statements.
Stretch.
Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to do with your life. The most interesting people I know didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives. Some of the most interesting 40 year olds I know still don't know.
Get plenty of calcium. Be kind to your knees. You'll miss them when they're gone.
Maybe you'll marry, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll have children, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll divorce at 40, maybe you'll dance the funky chicken on your 75th anniversary. Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much, or berate yourself either. Your choices are half chance. So are everybody else's.
Enjoy your body. Use it every way you can. Don't be afraid of it or of what other people think of it. It's the greatest instrument you'll ever own.
Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your livin
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