The Sibling’s Passion
When our brother reached grade 4, his music teacher encouraged him and his classmates to buy guitars from him so that he could teach some good music and show how to play on the guitar. Although our brother was allowed to buy the guitar, and he did take a few lessons on the guitar from his teacher, the teacher did not stay long in the school and left. So the guitar took a back corner in our home. We thought of selling it but our sibling wouldn’t allow it. The guitar meant a lot to him.
As he waded successfully up through his grade classes, he soon got addicted to working on the PC. He not only chatted, browsed and downloaded audio music but also started downloading guitar tabs. He soon began to understand the guitar tabs and applied to his guitar. His room soon became packed with his own modern PC, new electric guitars, sound mixing equipment, amplifier and music processor and he got addicted to playing on the guitar with all these stuffs. His sisters abroad catered for these things thinking that if he got what he wanted, he would remain attentive to his studies. But the opposite happened. He began to skip school and only concentrated on playing music and chatting. Our mom kept paying his tuition fees at school, thinking someday he would realize and attend classes at school. But that didn’t happen either.
Realizing that his O-level exams under the Board of University of London were quite near, Mom asked him to at least go for coaching under different course tutors and gave him the freedom to choose his own tutors. Of course, Mom helped him with this as well. And soon he was going to tutors without attending school, which he hated. He learned a lot from his tutors and his tutors prepared him well for his exams.
Finally, our dear brother did appear in the exams and his grades weren’t the best but they were good enough for entrance to A-level classes at school.