Life Lessons From Picking up a Guitar

It’s Never Too Late to Try Something New

At 48, I decided I wanted to learn to play guitar — or so I thought. Over the past two years, I watched my son get bit by the music bug, begin teaching himself guitar, and love it to the extent he threw himself in headlong, for hours every day. He went from me having no idea of what song he was playing to recognizing and then being in awe at what he could pull off.

I was envious of his experience. It reminded me of the times I would lose myself in creating — something that…