An Adult Student Told Me Today That Learning Piano at Forty-Three Has Been Harder Than Anything Else She Has Done in Years, and I Think She Is Completely Right

An Adult Student Told Me Today That Learning Piano at Forty-Three Has Been Harder Than Anything Else She Has Done in Years, and I Think She Is Completely Right – There is a specific kind of vulnerability in being genuinely, visibly bad at something new as a grown adult. I have enormous respect for anyone willing to sit through it anyway.