You betcha'! I have played acoustic guitar (and anything else I could lay hands on) since 1969. My music is my life. I wish I could master the violin (although I call it a fiddle. A violin is "a fiddle what the owner hasn't learned to play right".) Well, just pulling your strings....I do appreciate classical applications as well, but the fire for me will always be from bluegrass and folk traditions - song and dance. I can't seem to master the small scale of the fiddle neck, so now I look high and low for someone who can fit in with my performance group - myself and a mandolin player. Need a job? We'll cut you in for a third...might be enough to get you a new set of strings, lol. Also hoping someday to add a standup bass to the act.
Nothing sings like a violin, although the guitar is far more versatile I think. The cool thing about strings is once you get the scale concept laid out on the neck, it's the same steps for any stringed instrument (at least vertically, and the rest will come easy). Guitar is a great instrument and I would encourage you to experience it! What sort of music interests you?
Here's the thing about learning music: you don't learn it from anyone: it's either in you waiting and wanting to bust out, or it isn't and no professor is going to give it to you. You learn by *playing* your instrument, and loving to play it. We don't say "I am going to work my instrument". You have to play with it, find out what sounds good (do it again) and what doesn't (don't do it again). It has to be fun. Theory does help, but that's pretty much the total show for Mr. Brain. The show then goes to Mr. Heart and Mr. Soul who listen to what the Muse is asking for, or even better: demanding! Oh yes, there is a Muse, never doubt it. That's where the fire and inspiration come from, not out of a book. Music is more than any man. It is a gift shared between the Goddess and Man and utterly impossible without both. When the last quaver and vibration is done, then this SHOW is over. I think the Universe is music.
After all this time, I can still hardly put my instrument down. I am no virtuoso, but you will be hard pressed to find another soul who loves it more than I do.
Play on!