08/25/07
The Piano
25. Ecstasy
The pianist's daughter didn't inherit his talent: she's just as unmusical as her aunt, but she has other excellent attributes: she has a keen sense of harmony as to colors and shapes and can draw very well. Maybe she'll be an artist. Or an architect.
Whatever she plans to be, the pianist firmly wishes she'll do what she really likes. He doesn't mind his bank job: he's made a lot of friends there, including a few musicians just like himself. But of course he'd much rather be playing his piano professionally, whenever he felt like, without chores, and jobs, and vacuum cleaners.
And then he looks at his little girl and realizes she makes up for everything that went wrong in his life: the bad marriage, the giving up of a stellar career.
It was a nice trade-off, after all.