WE ALL EAT IT

"I will take life by the throat." - Beethoven

It is so much easier relating with people's success story, than with their pain. It's easy to assume that, these people live on beds made of roses. How can you imagine, that the wealthiest man - financially - on earth ever gets broke? Even though there's such a possibility in reality. Difficulty is a meal life feeds everyone, at one point or another whether we like it or not.

Beethoven in spite of his greatness and success, was not however, a stranger to difficulties. During his twenties, he began to lose his hearing. His fingers "became thick," he said on one occasion. He couldn't feel the music as he once had. His hearing problem haunted him in the middle years of his life, but he kept it a well-guarded secret. When he reached his fifties, Beethoven was stone deaf. Three years later he made a tragic attempt to conduct an orchestra and failed miserably. Approximately five years later, he died

THE BEST TIME TO START

"The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago, the second best time is now." - Chinese Proverb 

By the age of five, Beethoven was playing the violin under the tutelage of his father - an accomplished musician. By the time he was 13, Beethoven was a concert organist. In his twenties, he was already studying under the very watchful eyes of Haydn and Mozart. In fact, Mozart spoke prophetic words when he declared that Beethoven would give the world something worth listening to by the time his life ended. As Beethoven began to develop his skills, he became a prolific composer. During his lifetime, he wrote nine majestic symphonies and five concertos for piano, not to menti