Everything can be looked at as a mere tool. To other people, it's more than that - an identity, a culture, a history, self-expression. It might have felt like

Everything can be looked at as a mere tool. To other people, it's more than that - an identity, a culture, a history, self-expression. It might have felt like a drag if I was forced to learn to play and listen to jazz, like in music classes. But I don't try to project my personal feelings of how playing and learning jazz feels like work and drudgery onto actual jazz musicians. Now imagine if a jazz musician woke up one day and there were no one left to jam with - just curmudgeons like myself who don't appreciate jazz. Man, what a drag.