“i don’t — i DIDN’T. i haven’t given up, not on anything. well, okay, that’s not true. if we’re being honest i DID give up on trying to teach myself how to play piano because i’m just not as musically inclined as i thought that i was. but even THEN, i still know how to play twinkle, twinkle little star, and, like… thirty seconds of clair de lune. and i think life is a lot like that, sometimes, for me. i want to give up, i want to give up all the time. i’m sitting on the bench and no matter how many times i try to start over, i always end up pressing the wrong key and it makes the whole song sound AWFUL and… and i just want to give up on it for good, because who needs to play the stupid piano anyway? and so i’ll walk away. but every time i see a piano, i end up sitting down and playing the first thirty seconds that i do know, til i mess it all up again. but if i still play those thirty seconds, i haven’t really given up, right? maybe it feels like i have sometimes, or like i want to, but… but i DON’T, i promise i don’t.”