When you start to play an instrument, it's like making a new friend. A new best friend.

You learn about the instrument and play around with it, getting to know it.

After awhile, you're used to the instrument and can call it a friend, but not a best friend yet.

As you play it, you laugh about the mistakes you make when playing it and sometimes get angry when it doesnt do what you want, but that's what happens in human friendships and relationships. You laugh and get sad and angry.

The instrument communicates through its music.

You go through trial and error with the instrument. Just like a friend.

Eventually you can sit there and just randomly make noise with the instrument (in my case, strum the violin cuz I'm feeling down), kind of like you can just talk about anything with a best friend.

The instrument can, and should one day, become your best friend.

Or maybe I'm the only one that thinks like this.