Let's all just be honest with each other and face the fact that we've been trying to ignore for so long: people who play guitar are cooler than everyone else. I know they say - whoever "they" are - that you're not supposed to pick favorites, but we can't keep side-stepping this.
Exhibit A: Awesome "Take Away Show" in Paris (the Shins)
I started thinking about this a couple weeks ago, when I had to cut my nails off. I thought to myself that I should practice guitar while I have the chance. Every time I get overwhelmed with the prospect; no, the inevitable reality of sucking.
I often find myself wishing I was fluent at guitar. Yes, fluent. It's like a language, one that you have to have a connection with - something deep inside you somewhere that makes you able to understand something that some of us will never have the awesomeness in our lives to grasp. I wish I was fluent in guitar.
I also have this theory that people who play guitar marry and date other guitar players. They do so because they know how cool it is, but they want to be humble about it. They know that their significant other won't be as swoony and impressed as the rest of us when they're dinking around on their fender late at night. Likewise, non-guitar players who are insecure about their inability to play guitar, and don't care to be constantly surrounded with someone who does and does so well, tend to stick to dating others of the same mindset.
I'm convinced that Jesus would've played the guitar. Partially because I just think He would've, and partially because He's just that cool. WWJD? Play guitar. And you know Hendrix would have nothing on Him.
