The Guitar and the Ego: Valuing the Wrong Things

Andrew
6 min readMar 2, 2020

All my childhood I wanted to play guitar.

I thought it was the coolest instrument. I used to look up guitars in magazines, wishing I had one. Eventually I began getting lessons. Eventually I began being able to play okay. But I was never satisfied. I wanted to be great. I wanted to be an immense player, one of those virtuosos who could shred scales at lightning speed, whose…

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Andrew

My passions include cinema, literature, fantasy, psychology, music/guitar, photography and ancient/medieval history.