Today had been particularly disappointing. It is like seeing all your efforts go to drain, similar to wasting all your energy, identical to the fact that your countless attempts to perfect things is futile.
During band practice today, something very astonishing happened. As you might know, our school band is putting in much effort for the upcoming competition in Hawaii. As a secondary 2 student, a rookie, I had to put extra efforts to match up my standards to that of my seniors. For the competition, we are supposed to play 3 pieces, one of which is beyond the secondary 2s' capability, and therefore it has been long decided for us not to play this piece. It didn't seem that bad, because we(the secondary 2s) are at least, still contributing 2/3 of the whole thing. Unfortunately, after some weeks, it has again been decided for us not to play another piece, except for those exceptionally good secondary 2 students. One song left, well, I guess this meant that we could at the very least have 100% focus on this music piece...
Well, this is not all. We have been practising for 3-4 whole months, for 3 important music pieces, that will probably decide the reputation of our school's band. And the last piece of song was all we had left to contribute to the band. However, I was rudely shocked when the senior suddenly forbidded us, secondary twos, to play that piece, and this is only for our section. me and my friends were astounded. How is this possible? What were the previous practises for? It was so unfair : if the others can play it, why can't we?
But we had to face the reality. We were not the section leader, nor the Band Major. We were just powerless people. Apart from being unfair, this trip for an overseas competition is basically nothing... Perhaps things would improve when i become more senior? Well, I guess that not contributing might be the best contribution for the band♪♫
That was really depressing. One down after another. The senior is quite unreasonable and should have let your section play at least one piece. Your section had practised it for 3 - 4 months and all your efforts had gone down the drain. It really is unfair to your section.
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