From NPR.
This is hidden brain.
I'm Shankar Vedantam.
You don't need me to tell you that 2020 has been a year of change and disruption.
The Covid-19 pandemic and the recession have upended many people's lives and will continue to do so in the months to come.
So this year, for our annual U 2.0 series about reinvention, we are focusing on the ways in which change comes into and out of our lives.
We might not be able to control some of the things that happen to us, but we can shift the way we perceive and respond to them.
I was really devastated to lose something that I was completely in love with and so passionate about.
And that had really constituted such a large part of my life and my identity.
You know, I was first and foremost a violinist.
Loss and renewal, this week on hidden brain.
My grandmother was an indian classical violinist, and so my mom had her old violin in our attic for many years.
This is Maya Shankar.
Each of my three older siblings had rejected the violin, saying that it wasn't cool enough.
And my mom finally gave me the instrument, and I was immediately taken, kind of, by the tactile sensation of the instrument.
I mean, the wood and the bow.
I just loved the feeling of playing.
The violin, even as a child.
Maya immediately loved everything about the violin.
The way it looked, the way it felt, the way it sounded.