> It also rekindled in me a deep love of music, to the point that now, I work as a collaborative pianist and coach chamber music groups in a local music academy

> It also rekindled in me a deep love of music, to the point that now, I work as a collaborative pianist and coach chamber music groups in a local music academy. One of the things I see over and over in this thread is people finding meaningful work. I am both encouraged and demoralized by this. It seems like such a whim of fate, a thing outside of ones control that you can have a choice in doing something you enjoy and also be compensated for it. It feels like a cruel lie. I wish I could read something like your story and experience something other than jealousy and jaded critiques of how it's not realistic and this isn't right and any other hater bullshit my brain comes up with to deny me the idea any good can ever occur