Those Who Wait

I am currently going through this phase of obsession towards Tommy Emmanuel's beautiful piece called Those Who Wait. It's a bit funny though, the way I've been hearing about Tommy Emmanuel since the past 7 years but never bothered to watch any of his videos on YouTube. I thought I won't like him. But boy, I was so wrong.

(There's a better quality video of him playing on YouTube, 

but the owner of the video disabled the embed code.)

I tried learning this, I really did. I even printed out the tabs. And I was so humbled by the fact that I actually have short fingers. I've never really been bothered about this throughout my years of playing guitar. It's because you don't really need long fingers to hold basic chords, you see. All these while I've been too comfortable thinking that being called a sifu and being able to play barre chords make me a cool guitarist. Boy, I was wrong. I still have a lot to learn. And I also learnt that I can't stretch my fingers wide apart, or wide enough to play this piece. A YouTuber said your fingers can adapt and stretch further apart if you practise. That's a bit of a good news.

Anyway I'm putting this here so you can listen to it. It's really beautiful and everyone deserves to listen to something as beautiful as this. 

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My ex-classmate from primary school got into Asia's Got Talent by the way. Meanwhile, my ex-housemate will be heading to my dream university. The reason why I'm saying all these? I don't know, really. I should stop focussing on myself sometimes. A few days ago a friend wrote on Facebook that "Success is a by-product, not a goal." While I'm at home not sleeping at 3 or 4 am, trying to ignore the pain from the growth of my wisdom tooth, I can't help to think of how everyone's growing up faster than me. Everyone's heading towards that direction--and I'm still here gaining approval from people to tell me that I'm good enough, funny enough, pretty enough, while I'm denying the fact that I need all these. Because I really don't know what I need and what I don't need.

Anyway, this song has a little bit of background behind it. In one of the videos that I found, Tommy Emmanuel actually explained why it's called Those Who Wait:

"We learn so much in life, don't we? I mean life is our teacher, life is the school--if we're smart, we learn the lessons and learn from each other. And I think one of the hardest things that I've ever learnt is patience--trust, faith, and believing that things are going to work out. It's really hard to learn to be patient. And that's what this song is all about--about truly trusting that if your mode is alright, and everything about you is heading in the right direction, there's no way that you could go wrong."

But Tommy, sir, I don't even know what it means to be having a mode that's alright. I don't even know where's the right direction ._.