30-day Writing Challenge: Never give up (14/30) This is Part 2 to my previous notebook entry: If you've ever sacrificed your hobbies for another hobbies, you should’ve made sure it was really worth it. And I did so. In the middle of my piano learning stage, I was forced to stop playing the volleyball that I was really mad about because of the softness loss of my trained piano fingers. Being faced with a choice between two equally adored activities was like being torn between your mum and dad ending in divorce. I decided for the piano. When I left my parents’ apartment with my loved piano in and went to study at the university far away from home, I did not realise that I would lose my playing ability whatsoever. But if you stop playing any instrument and practicing on a regular basis for a long time, you will be losing even your basic competence little by little. Unfortunately, at that time with no possibility to play the piano regularly, with no access to good teachers or to some good music sheets to learn something new, I would come home one or two times a year and everything I could do then was only repeating the last piece of music that I had learnt at the local music school. Finally, after getting married my playing abilities went really down in flames. My new family, a child, a job, then exchange of a room of our apartment with a piano in for a room for our son where there was no space for a piano, that all made the final straw to my love for piano music. Or not? (To be continued.) Conclusion? Never give up anything you are keen on. It will not be worth it. Thank you for all the corrections in advance!!