College Admissions Essay: Give Up In Taiwan

This I Believe Essay: Give Up
While I have always being relentlessly drilled I should never quit, I believe that quitting is the most important skill I have learned.
Living in Taiwan, parents often compare their child with other child on all areas of life. Whether that be from academics to how well your child can play the piano. Luckily, my parents, for the most part, respect my own autonomy. I was allowed be involved in sports, which most other parents in Taiwan considered as a futility. A perfect child under a Taiwanese parent’s eye would be someone who went to crams school after crams school, learn and master both the piano and violin, and nothing else. Just that. Needless to say, I didn’t fit in the mold of a perfect child. Even though my parents are considered not as a typical “Asian” parents, they still fell under the pressure of other parents’ comparison. Although I know to be excellent in everything isn’t possible, my young and clueless self still strive to be in a “perfect” child.
Initially, I was excited to try out something new. The hourglass shaped wooden box with string seems like a playtoy to me. Even though I was unable to read musical notes, I was able to be successful playing a few basic songs such as Twinkle Twinkle Little Star or Amazing Grace by pure memorization, by memorizing note by note, draw by draw. However, my short lived career with the violin is coming to an end. Impressed by my violin “skills” so far, my violin teacher introduce me to more difficult pieces. I struggled immensely, I was unable to get through first few lines of music without wanting to pull my hair out. I practice day after day, with the string of the bow fraying and a dent imprinted on my chin from resting on the edge of the violin, trying to make each note sound at least