Nuances of Humans

Over my years of playing piano-about 9. I think- I've begun to detect patterns in music students. There are many different kinds of people, and a few of them are always at a recital. There is the well known "Asian Prodigy". Sometimes these come in groups. They're the little Asian kids whose skill levels would lead you to believe that they're about 10 years older. And then you see them and they're, like, 5 years old. Then there's the one random awkward kid who takes himself waaaaaaayy too seriously. I don't watch them anymore. They just make me squirm. I just listen now. Then, there is the kid whose mother thinks her child is better than everyone else's. Her child played exquisitely. Everyone else was "cute", but not at the same level as her kid. There is also the one non-Asian kid who is like super-ultra-fantastically amazing and their song makes you want to cry, it's that beautiful, but they don't know it. They sit back down in their seat and look like they thought they did terribly. Then there's me. I'm not really sure where I fit. I'm probably the one who's just there because I want to play piano really well, and in order to do that, I'm required to go to these recitals.
I'm also learning to distinguish between violin students, piano students, and voice students. Voice students usually are wearing high heeled boots and short dresses/skirts and leggings. And they always sound amazing. Violin students often have long hair, black skirts/pants and a white shirt, and overpowering parents. Piano students, I like to think, are the more normal ones stuck in between these two groups.
Okay, disclaimer: not all people are like this. There are always a few exceptions, but, let's face it, that's how it is.

Yay stereotypes.
Lisa