Have you ever been in a position where you were expected and required to take music lessons even though you had no interest?
The situation was this: my father was a music teacher. My mother was a piano player and, in fact, the whole family was very musical. I was the only one who didn't know how to play a musical instrument.
And, as a lot of families do, I was required to take the piano lessons even though I had no interest in learning how to play it. So, it started. Lesson after lesson I suffered. Finally, I just quit practicing and my piano teacher told my parents that I was hopeless. Great — no more piano lessons.
But my parents still thought that I should learn a musical instrument. In their opinion, having no interest in playing the piano didn't mean that I had no interest in other instruments. So they chose some other instruments for me, but the same things happened. It seemed that I was a bit headstrong (任性的) but, at the same time, I knew what I wasn't interested in.
The musical story didn't end here. It went on to where I decided what I wanted to learn — to play the drums. I loved playing the drums and played in several bands.
The point is this: if you are not ready to do something, you won't do it no matter how much someone else wants you to do it. Or, at the very least, you will certainly not put your heart and soul into it and will surely fail.
Think now what you really love doing and get down to it.
