4 Things I Considered My 'Children' Before My Kid Was Born

4 My Guitar

How I Thought Of It Before: 

I started playing guitar when I was 13, which is around the time a lot of people start to wonder who they are and how they fit into the world. “Guitar player” became my identity for a while. I played in a bunch of bands, dressed like I was auditioning for a Tom DeLonge biopic, and viewed my guitar almost like an extra appendage. Remember Bruce Campbell attaching that chainsaw to his stump arm in Army of Darkness? I saw that and thought “ooh, convenient.” But like, about my guitar.

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That’d leave just one hand left for playing the thing. I’d have to finger using my toes. 

Bizarrely, I also went through a bunch of different guitars, endlessly searching for the “right” one. Versatility was important: My band was punk and ska, but I also played in my school’s jazz band. Being a high school kid whose sole source of income was mowing lawns and reffing children’s soccer games, I couldn’t exactly afford a rotating cadre of axes with different specialties. If I wanted a new guitar, I’d save up for like a year, tell my parents that all I wanted for Christmas was to go halfsies on a Fender, and hope the guy at the shop gave me good trade-in value on my old one.

4 Things I Considered My 'Children' Before My Kid Was Born
Source: Pinoy Daily News