Just this one old memory

It's 2011 now, how crazy is that? I was reading through this blog, and got a couple of pretty good laughs from it. One thing I failed to put down that I had intended to post sometime after the post "Not Me!" is this memory that I am going to recall now.

Encouragement is a good thing, right? Even when someone fails or does a poor job, an encouragement will help to comfort the person to whom you are talking. Now, my old piano teacher, the one who came to our house in his big green van, did not seem to grasp the idea of encouragement. However he did not put us down with hurtful words really. He neither encouraged nor discouraged us. This is what he would do:

Whenever I finished playing a piece that I was not confident in, he would pause for a moment, sigh, and say, "Let's just move on..."

Oh, I cannot write another word! I think I am going to go to my closet and cry now...

-Jelaya