In the end, it is all about the journey. Spaghetti against the wall? Lots of it stuck along the way but I was just too busy doing other stuff to pay it much attention.

I like your description better than Thoreau's ~ "Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to their graves with the song still in them".

Sing out!

Never able to sort the left hand right hand thing on piano.

But to translate to guitar. 🤔 Yes I do,I'm an analytical player in some senses. I have to know the key or mode,I have conversations with others in my band where they look blankly as I say it's kind of C Lydian. Cos it's Cmaj7 in several places and that's the key structure I'm playing Emin appegios over the C in the bass. ....
Tumbleweed

I used to have a t-shirt. On the front, “Dazed and Confused.” On the back, “I don’t know where we’ve been, but it’s been a lovely afternoon.”