Reader discretion is advised.
Q: Is a piano student someone who wants to learn the tuba?
A: No.
Q: Is a piano student someone who wants to learn to paint?
A: No.
Q: Is a piano student someone who wants to learn to play the piano?
A: Yes.
Q: Is a piano student someone who wants to learn to play the piano of his own free will?
A: Yes.
Q: Is a piano student someone who wants to learn to play the piano because his parents made him do it?
A: Yes.
Q: Is a piano student someone who wants to learn something else rather than the piano?
A: No.
Q: Is a piano student someone who needs to be told what to do in life?
A: No.
Q: Does a piano student go to piano lessons to learn the meaning of life?
A: No.
Q: Is a piano student someone who wants an identity mentor rather than a piano teacher?
A: No.
Q: Is a piano student someone who seeks for a psychotherapist rather than a piano teacher?
A: No.
Q: Does a person who needs phycological treatment seek for a piano teacher?
A: No.
Q: Is a piano student someone who wants a piano teacher rather than a counselling mentor?
A: Yes.
Q: Is a piano student someone who wants a piano teacher to teach him how to play the keyboard instrument that is called “piano”?
A: Yes.
Q: Is a piano student someone who seeks for a friend to pour his heart out?
A: No.
Q: Is a piano student someone who knows everything about the piano?
A: No.
Q: Is a piano student someone who knows everything there is in life?
A: No.
Q: Is a piano student someone who knows what he wants in life?
A: No.
Q: Is a piano student someone who wants to know what to vote in the next general election?
A: No.
Q: Is a piano student someone who wants to be told what to follow as a career path?
A: No.
Q: Is a piano student someone who wants to learn to play the piano?
A: Yes.
Q: Is a piano student someone who wants to know right from wrong?
A: No
Q: Is there a science today that can tell us what a piano student really wants?
A: No.
Q: Is a piano student someone who will find out about his life through the words of his piano teacher?
A: No.
Q: Is a piano student someone who will find out about his life through the act of playing the piano?
A: Yes.
What is a piano student? I wish I knew…
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Copyright © 1st of April 2021 by Nikos Kokkinis
Many thanks to the Wonderfull artist Matese Fields for his image used in this article. I downloaded the image from Unsplash.com for free. To see more of this artist’s great images click below:
