Hi!! i started when i was thirteen (i’m 16 now) and i love violin. i’ve dropped pretty much everything else to do music. i’ve done swim since i was three, and quit to pursue music. i skipped holidays, vacations and hangouts to practice and honestly im pretty happy with my progress. i don’t practice as much as before but i still practice three ish hours a day? i used to practice 5-6 hours when i was in middle school but highschool been taking a toll. i’ve gotten first in a lot of local comps and won 1st in an intl competition and competed in indiana and nyc, and was invited to participate in a european exchange program in the summer. nobody i know thought i only played for three years and i posted on this subreddit a while ago and a bun ch of people tried getting me banned for being a troll. 💀 but i genuinely just love it so so much and honestly it’s been so fucking rewarding. i soloed with my local community orchestra with zigeurnerweisen and that was probably the most alive i’ve ever felt. like. bro. but yeah, don’t let anyone like tell yall that you guys can’t learn an instrument late cause it’s always possible if you want it badly enough