Warm-up Blog

A couple years ago, I read this biography that was recommended by my violin teacher. It told the story about a young Korean violin prodigy. He was talented, but he did not like the violin. He had no interest in practicing, but he could never say the words "I want to quit." Noticing his discontent with violin, one day at his lesson, his teacher, Dorothy DeLay, asked him if he were to quit violin, what would he do instead. He answered that he wanted to draw. With that, he quit violin, but as the months passed by, he started to notice the emptiness in his life without music. I can relate to this because I also play the violin, so I can understand the feeling of why he would want to quit. There have been several times in my life where I also wanted to quit, but then I knew that if I were to, then I would feel this huge empty hole in my life. I think connections are important because it helps the reader understand what the character is dealing with.

P.S. He continued violin lessons and became really famous.