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@LAOG thank you for your concern *muah*

No problem

Ils n'ont pas l'air de croire à leur bonheur
Et leur chanson se mêle au clair de lune

@Beren yeah, yeah, we know you know some french

How romantic

"Clair de Lune" - a poem by Paul Verlaine in 1869 was the inspiration for the third movement (Clair de Lune) of Claude Debussy's 1890 Suite bergamasque.

Did you just search that?

Just had to look up the dates. I studied classical piano when I was in school.

Uhuh, hmmm, I finished music school of first degree

@ViburnumDraco My piano teacher used to always give me very emotional pieces because I played like a robot.

But I honestly don't know a lot about music. I only know this about Clair de Lune because I read the poem before.

My main instrument was guitar, but it's been years since I played.

If I could I'd go on a concert or ballet, but with covid...

Ah, covid ruining all our plans.

Yep

I used to play piano. Was mostly self-taught as well. The music instructor at the rec center used to get mad at me because I didn't practice nor tried to learn the sheet music but I could still play most stuff back then

@LAOG not you first, not last

I had the best teacher for guitar, never got mad, patient, he was like a second father to me

Ah, that lady got mad for all the right reasons. One of the very few adults in my childhood who was nice to me.

Why? Where you bad boy? Or just bad adults?

Bad neighborhood. I could have tried being a better kid but stuff happens. She even paid for all my lessons and I would only go twice a month

Well, you were only a kid.

I had a strict Russian piano teacher who used to hit my knuckles with a ruler whenever I messed up. Apparently, my technique was on point ... I just had no emotional connection with music.

You didn't tell your parents?

They didn't care as long as I kept coming first in everything.
In fact, if you got below an A in my family, you'd get to kneel outside overnight at our annual family holiday.

My frist piano teacher was awful, my mother was picking me up after lesson and had see me crying, she got mad, and got principal to change the teacher

What the f???

It's kneel or take the belt. I preferred kneeling to being beaten.

I had good grades, but it happend that I had worse sometimes, I never had any punishment. I was raised mostly by my mother, she let me do what I wanted, which wasn't best strategy. But if my father got something in his had she couldn't say no to him.

But we were never beaten.

The only time my knuckles were swollen was because on the way to piano lessons I would have to fight the kids who hanged outside. Good times. Then I'd get whooped at home for fighting

@LAOG How'd they find out you were fighting?
@ViburnumDraco Idk, you'd get beaten if you don't study hard. Unfortunately, my older brothers set the standard too high so the rest of us had to match up.

@Beren I have to say, your parents kind of suck.
@LAOG when my father left my mother, was around the same time I started elementary school, I fought with boys all the time.

@ViburnumDraco There's no such as free lunch. Sure, they were subpar parents but I did have the very best of everything and that I'm financially comfortable in life.

@Beren swollen knuckles, roughed up clothes. The streets were unforgiving and my ability to piss people off with what I say would get me into more fights than one
@ViburnumDraco I was lucky enough that my father chose to stay with my mother as he had two other families he could have chosen

@Beren Well, it makes me sad.

@LAOG I see. There was too much evidence to hide. Still, nothing wrong with defending yourself.

@ViburnumDraco I've come to terms with it. You have to make sacrifices for what you want.

See, they know that, but it doesn't make it right either. I could always be the bigger person in those situations but as a younging I was just wildin

@LAOG my mother would be happy if my father had stayed, but he wasn't good parent. He was a police officer, and treated us like subordinates. When there where tough situations he choose his own comfort over helping his kids.

@Beren I'm not good with sacrifices

@LAOG You did what you could to survive. I mean, sure avoiding fights would've made you the bigger person but who knows? Maybe they'd think you were a pushover and make things more difficult for you? Kids are assholes.

Maybe it's because I am older now that I reflect more on my actions, but I'd say at least 70% of the fights I was in were caused because I said something that pissed people off. lol
Unfortunately if I did fight I had to win because if I lost then both my parents would beat me for losing

@ViburnumDraco I mean I am glad my father stayed with us but it did leave a conflicting feeling for years that my two older sisters didn't get over until they were older. I don't really know how I ever felt about it other than that he was here and that's all there was to it

@LAOG How would they know you lost? I mean, did they ever see the other guy?

The more you fight, the higher the chance that you've lost a fight. People who pretend they've never lost a fight have never been in many fights. Streets are ruthless. Some weren't 1v1, etc... Can't win them all
Most of my cousins were also gang members so by association opposition gang members would jump me

@Beren that's bad logic, maybe you'll grow out of it.

@LAOG that's crazy :/ Your parents should've beaten up your cousins instead.

look at u losers playing instruments. ill have u all know i can play hot cross buns on the recorder with mad skillz. even bethoven would cry

@LAOG nothing is as bad as when ur coach puts u to fight against a sum1 2x ur weight class. i was k.o first punch for 5 min . bigsad

I cried when I read what you wrote

@ViburnumDraco only a true connoisseur would cry, u the bomb