Broken Violinist

As a college music major, my whole life has revolved in some facet on my violin playing. Although I'm not a great violinist, and I'm not majoring in performance, my violin is a major factor in me going to school. 

Another aspect of my college life was finding rugby. If you know anything about rugby you probably assume its a dangerous sport. While that isn't entirely wrong, it's still an unfair assessment. However, I did experience an injury that directly effects my life pretty substantially. I broke 2 metacarpals (finger bones in the palm) on my violin hand. Since my injury I have picked up my violin once. I haven't been able to move my fingers for a few weeks and it has been probably the worst time of my life.

In almost every musicians career they have not wanted to practice, and I have been there before. But after losing the ability to do most of the things I enjoy, I desperately want to play my violin again. Every time I here music part of my soul longs to hold my violin. I didn't take my studies very seriously before and I was only ever making small improvements every month, but now that its been almost a month of no violin, I am angry at how much of my time I took for granted about practicing the violin. 

If you get one thing out of any of my posts, its that you need to cherish every moment you can making music, because before you no it, your world can get flipped upside down and you never know if and when things will approach how they were before.