Yet playing the piano had saved me. I learned more about emotions through music than I ever did interacting with people or during the countless, dull years I’d spent in therapy. Each set of tones had a corresponding emotion that people felt. Minor notes were associated with sadness, while major tones were linked to lively and colorful moods. Those were emotions I should have felt and couldn’t, but at least now they had a sound. I was like a hacker deciphering a code.
