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A QUESTION FOR A QUESTION


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Comments

[noreasonneeded]

An understandable prioritization. I’m in somewhat the same position. I wouldn’t say I have an unutilized talent, but I always think learning more languages would be a useful skill. However, other skills have taken precedence out of necessity, particularly since I know others whose language skills are volunteered as needed. What are the instruments that you already play?

[sainteustache]

The piano and the organ. One is my passion, the other is work, though I have come to enjoy it greatly regardless. We may still grow with the unwanted tasks we undertake, I have discovered.

How many languages do you master? And perhaps, more personally, which do you prefer to speak?

[noreasonneeded]

I've found that to be very true. Regardless of circumstance, lessons and skills learned in order to survive don't have to remain merely that. Life's far more productive if one doesn't reside in regret.

Oh, I'm just fluent in one so far. I know a smattering of others, but not as much as I'd like. ... I suppose the ones I'd prefer to master first would be the native languages of those closest to me. Even if others might be more temptingly pragmatic.

You said music is in part for your work, are you a performer, then? Or a teacher?

[sainteustache]

Pragmatic approaches do not tickle the romantic mind as much as emotion does. I'm told, sometimes we must follow our feelings to get anywhere truly satisfying. I have yet to decide whether I believe this to be correct. What are your thoughts on the matter?

I play the organ every Sunday during church service and on other similar occasions. Rarely, I perform piano concerts. Most of my time is spent teaching young people music.

[noreasonneeded]

I lean more towards pragmatism most days. Certain emotions can cloud judgement and put people at risk. With that said? I don't know anyone who's never been driven by emotion. That includes myself. I think it can be used as fuel, but the caution is not letting it burn everything to the ground without a plan in mind to build from the ashes. I suppose to answer your question, it might be too complicated a question subject to too many possibilities to answer clearly in one camp or the other. Has there been a time you've let yourself be guided mostly by your emotions?

Teaching is a particular talent. One whose value I don't underestimate.

[sainteustache]

Then, you are cleverer than most people.

My parents died, some years ago. I have a brother, almost seventeen years younger than me, who was still not of an age that he could live alone at the time. My uncle wanted to take him in, but that would necessitate that he left Paris and moved out of the country. Perhaps, in hindsight, it would have been best for him. Perhaps, in hindsight, I should not have insisted on my own desperate need not to lose more family, but I did and he lives with me now, because I couldn't let go.

Would you call that guiding or burning?

[noreasonneeded]

Usually. Though cleverness is only as good as the next challenge to adapt it towards, so it doesn't do to rest on laurels.

I'd say without a little more information, it might yet still fall under either category. You trusted a known entity, yourself, over an unknown one with what mattered most to you. That isn't entirely unsensible. How old is your brother now? Have you been able meet the needs of both of you? If the answer is yes to the latter, but the question is whether you might have been better off... there's no way to tell, is there? All that can be known is what is, and to make a choice going forward based on that.