I mentioned something like the following in another thread - or other threads. Like lots of people, I love music. And also wanted to try my hand at either making new music, or playing music in certain ways that I wanted - musical freedom etc.
Piano is one instrument that allows one person in real-time to sound sort of like a mini-orchestra. Ok -- not 'literally' a mini orchestra, but provides enough sound and activity in the instrument music to express ourselves in a very nice way. Sure - it can't pitch bend in real-time with a desired profile like we can with our voice or bow-string instrument, and can't change volume level of a sustained note like selected bow string instruments or own human voice etc. Although, the piano has features that makes it a force in music. A musical force that produces musical magic.
I foresaw that if I put in enough time and effort - hard yards (ie. learning, developing etc) - then I would eventually reach a self-knowingly, self-awaringly special stage or stages with the piano and music, even though I know that music is within us, and much of that has been accumulated through learning from people's music, and from teachers (directly and indirectly).
Spend enough time, regardless of weeks, days, months, years, many many many many years - in not only playing script music, but also in areas of music theory, composition, listening, relative pitch piano playing, finger drill exercises, music sequence memory work etc, and we usually do know that we will eventually get to some very special state in piano/music. And there are various (infinite) special states. The main thing I have found is - no matter how long it takes - just keep learning and practising, and developing in piano and music - and we will keep progressing. Just playing even a few notes of tunes that we really like a lot - with 1 finger or one hand on the piano is special and fantastic already in my opinion. And people will just keep building and building. That's what naturally happens.
Patience - is generally important. Patience, and simply - enjoy working on things that we don't yet know how to do. That's part of my enjoyment actually. I like the feeling of not (yet) being able to do various things - and then those amazing feelings that follow when certain things eventually start coming together. It's quite a special feeling that people keep encountering at various moments in their piano/music adventures.
I play the piano (play piano) every day because I (like a lot of people here) love pianos and music, and know the unbelievable 'power' that a piano gives us in one form of music expression. I just say one form, because there are other amazing instruments too - those other ones, eg. bow-string instruments, guitar etc, which are very very very expressive too. But it does also go back to one feature of the piano - where a piano has that polyphony that makes us -- in real time -- sound like a 'mini orchestra', plus has its own incredible nuances, timbre, range etc. Piano -- very very formidable indeed. It lets me play tunes in a way that I find to be very very enjoyable to do. And I have heaps of enjoyable activities - and piano/music is among one of those very special enjoyable ones that I love to do.
At PW - I did mention there is a 'dark' side - but not because of me, as I'm not on the 'dark' side. I'm honest in that a long time ago - although it sometimes still does happen -- you know such as at dinner functions, or gatherings etc, with other families - which can be family, friends, unknown people etc -- where we used to always get the inevitable, where there would be at least one family - and I don't mean relatives or acquaintances (although it can be too) -- it can be just unknowns, or newly-introduced people, at the gathering/function etc, where they just cannot wait to initiate their own talk about their kids etc and say - 'they did their grade so and so in piano and/or violin etc, and they just finished dancing and drama lessons, and won swimming/athletic comp etc, number 1 in everything/school/math etc and they're really good at piano'. You know -- the can't wait to skite, brag, show-off, 'dominate', centre-of-attention etc -- you know - the 'status'/narcissist/class thing. I just listen - and don't even mention piano at all, and don't even say that I play piano or into music etc. But that 'dark' side actually gave me a secondary reason (which isn't actually important of course) to 'practise' and develop. It's not an important driving force, and I have never had to use it in local life - as I really don't want to. And that secondary driver or motivator is for making a statement (if ever needed) to say that - they're not the only ones that are 'good' at playing the piano and music etc. It's somewhat 'dark' (not sinister of course) - but it's something that some people might even relate to. And once again - I'm not that sort. I'm only just mentioning it.
First and foremost in my case is ... love of piano and piano playing and music.