And once again about choosing guitars... philosophy

Yesterday I received another batch of guitars, played them, and pondered about music, guitars, and choosing them.

I have already written an article on how one should choose a guitar, but these are just dry facts. Only yesterday did I realize one thing - it's not you who chooses the guitar, but it who chooses you! It's like a magic wand, those who have read or watched Harry Potter will understand. Why? I think that everything in our life happens for a reason, even things that don't happen! You can't imagine how many interesting guitars I have missed on auctions and forums, in order to buy and resell them, and the reasons vary - I overslept the alarm, forgot, was too greedy to place a higher bid, someone simply beat me to it by a couple of minutes... Always, when you don't make a decision in life - someone else makes it for you. If you want to achieve success - make your decisions quickly and independently, whether it's buying a guitar or life issues! Every guitar that I missed didn't give me peace for a couple of days, but then everything was forgotten, naturally... At the same time, in a week or two, I would find a new option that was even better - and it would appear, you won't believe it, suddenly! I would just go to eBay, refresh the page with guitars and click - and the guitar I needed would appear in front of me, first on the browser page, then a month later in my hands! How and why did they appear? I don't know, this is exactly what became my reflection yesterday, after long thoughts, I realized that it is the guitar that chooses you, and not you it! Yes, for me, as a person who has been dealing with guitars for almost 7 years, I have access to choose a guitar from the selected ones later, but I will say that it is all individual, a matter of taste - I have chosen only 4 guitars for myself out of thousands that have passed through me. I have had so many musicians as guests, good ones, who would come, play the guitars - one might say "This PRS Custom 22 sounds divine, the Standard loses to it", and another would come and say exactly the opposite. After dozens of such cases, I realized that you cannot subjectively advise anything to a person. You must give a choice, find out what they want, what sound, appearance, and only then offer options. 

Every time you miss an opportunity to buy a guitar, just think about my words: It is not You who choose the guitar, but It who chooses You! This means there will be a better option, and this one wasn't yours! Everything in life is like this!