Two Realities
You don’t seem like a person who would do that…
I heard that statement a lot from acquaintances during my first year as a musician.“How’s teaching going?” they’d ask. “Oh, I’m not teaching! I’m playing mus—“
“You don’t seem like someone who would quit your job!” They’d usually add, “Good for you!”
Ironically, acquaintances from high school at my five-year reunion said,“I never thought you’d be a future teacher, that’s cool!”
Ah, the two realities. There is the outside reality, the reality of what “seems” to be so from another’s point of view; and then there is the reality that we think is so. If not so, at least possible!
It sometimes can derail our confidence to hear someone see our work or our ability in a different light; but rather let’s see it as an opportunity, to present the reality we believe.
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