I started playing guitar for like 3 months ago and it was a coincidence that this whole thing started. Me and some friends made a bet that we'd stay away from everything that had anything to do with computers and televisions for a week to prove that we weren't addicted to them. Of course we got bored as hell as soon as we went home. One night that week when I was at a friends house I found this really old guitar in an old room, when we were playing cards. I kinda got stuck there all night just tapping on the strings over and over. I didn't know a single chord back then. When I got home that night I started thinking about what it'd be like if I put my time into playing an intrument instead of watching television and spending my time in front of the computer. I had always been saying that I'd wanted to start playing the guitar so I just went for it. I went to the music store and bought a Cort AD850 steel stringed acoustic guitar. Lovely guitar. I've been playing every day ever since and my fingers still hurt a bit even thought it's been 3 months
If we hadn't made that stupid bet. I probably wouldn't be able to play any chord at all on a guitar by now.
Now I'm looking for my second guitar, an electric. Don't know what to get yet though but time will tell. I was 18 when I started playing btw.