Since I grew up playing music since I was 12, and consider myself a natural musician, I always took it for granted......it was an everyday part of my daily life.

Nowadays, I thank the Lord every day that I can play music. You might not understand this, but here goes.

Society today, in general, consists of lifeless souls, void of emotion and intimacy, empathy, caring, etc. You can see all around you the number of self-obsessed people who just go through the motions of life, "doing" but not "feeling."

I'm a very "emotional" person myself. Another way of saying I need to express my emotions which is hard to do with even friends nowadays, since technology took over our lives.

So I sit at the piano and squeeze out and explore every feeling I have in me that needs to come out. It comes out in the music and I feel emotionally purged at the end of a playing session. That aspect of playing is something I've really come to appreciate these last few years. It certainly beats "bottling" things up until one day you implode!