i just started playing last year in january of 2012, not this january past but the one before that, i really love it, its a great time passer and even more of a reward type thing for me, i was addicted pretty heavily to drugs (opiates) and to me playing guitar sort of helps in the sense that when your clean its very hard for your brain to release the right chemicals that light up the rewards pathways in my brain, by playing guitar i was literally able to circumvent drug usage by being accomplished at the acoustic, sometimes the reward to me was so emotionally valuable that i would literally feel a buzz, its hard to explain....but i love it, i had a cheap ibanez acoustic i bought when i started playing for 150 bucks, it was anice guitar but my little boy was playing around one day and he knocked it over and son of a bitchin thing the neck broke on it, like cracked where the guitar and neck meet so now it basically wont hold a tune, im sure its fixable with some effort, glue and a luthier but i ended up just trading my buddy for some bud for like a 80 dollar cheap TAKAMINE guitar, some jap or chinese guitar, i mean its good to learn on and sounds nice but i would LOVE LOVE LOVE to have a taylor or a martin or even a gibson or fender, although im not sure gibson even makes acoustic, im sure they do but, oh well, i figure until i get good a cheap guitar it is, but my dream literally would be to have a beautful D-28 Martin mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm i would sleep with it <3 marry me martin acoustic..