Ever since I picked the classical guitar back up I have been trying to figure out why I put it down in the first place. I was listing to the radio on the way into work, a non-classical station, and I heard a song I have not heard in a long time that I use to play once every now and then and it hit me it stopped being fun and I had taken it all too seriously. I was practicing so hard at the Classical I forgot why I wanted to play it in the first place and I forgot why I was plying guitar. That and of course a divorce at around the same time didn't help but the resault was I just stopped enjoying it.

I recently was having a problem with practice and I was again taking it all to seriously and I was focused way to much on the future and playing much better and getting frustrated that I was not only not as good as I wanted to be but not as good as I was back when I was at best mediocre.

Now, after hearing that song (Ohio by CSN) I realized I need to calm down, enjoy playing and focus on now and not years down the road.

Has anyone else run into something similar?