This is the story of Robby. He was a young boy wholived with his elderly mother. His mother wanted him tolearn how to play the piano because she longed to hearher son play for her. She sent her son to a pianoteacher who took Robby in under her guidance. However,there was one small problem because Robby was notmusically inclined and therefore was very slow inlearning. The teacher did not have much faith in theboy because of his weakness. The mother was veryenthusiastic and every week she would send Robby to theteacher.
One day Robby stopped attending the piano lessons. Theteacher thought that he had given up and in fact shewas quite pleased since she did not give much hope toRobby. Not long after, the piano teacher was given thetask to organize a piano concert in town. She sent outcirculars to invite the students and public to attendthe event. Suddenly, she received a call from Robby whooffered to take part in the concert. The teacher toldRobby that he was not good enough and that he was nolonger a student since he had stopped coming forlessons. Robby begged her to give him a chance andpromised that he would not let her down.
Finally, she gave in and she put him to play last,hoping that he will change his mind at the last minute.When the big day came, the hall was packed and thechildren gave their best performance. Finally, it wasRobby’s turn to play and as his name was announced, hewalked in. He was not in proper attire and his hair wasnot properly groomed. The teacher was really nervoussince Robby’s performance could spoil the wholeevening’s brilliant performance. As Robby startedplaying the crowd became silent and was amazed at theskill of this little boy. In fact, he gave the bestperformance of the evening. At the end of hispresentation the crowd and the piano teacher gave him astanding ovation.The crowd asked Robby how he managed to play sobrilliantly. With a microphone in front of him, hesaid, “I was not able to attend the weekly pianolessons as there was no one to send me because mymother was sick with cancer. She just passed away thismorning and I wanted her to hear me play. You see, thisis the first time she is able to hear me play becausewhen she was alive she was deaf and now I know she islistening to me. I have to play my best for her!”