Week 6 - Meghana Vadassery

My guitar teacher and I were talking the other day. I've always maintained a level of formality with him, even though he's not that much older than me. Anyways, we were chatting about our music tastes, and the conversation soon diverged into our favorite shows, video games, and whatnot. The more passionate we became, the more we found ourselves edging onto curse words, until the two of us were openly swearing. I swear with my friends all the time, but I've never done the same with an adult. And yet, here the two of us were, exchanging language foul enough to have my mother in tears of shame.

Looking back, it was an insignificant event. However, I felt that by letting ourselves drop that invisible boundary between teacher-and-student, even for just a couple of minutes, we got to know one another much better. I still do respect him and treat him as an instructor, but I'm beginning to warm up to him as a friend. Even though he's almost ten years older than me, we share the same mentality. Pretty funny, right?