Everybody told me I should have taken piano lessons but I was too much of a tom-boy when I was young and preferred being outside. My mom could play though.
I struggled with piano for two or three years to make Mom happy but, like you, I wanted to be outside. I just didn’t see the point in it. My Mom was excellent, too.
Got to college and a fraternity brother was a tremendous player. He could play a song note-perfect after listening to it just once. It was the most amazing thing. The room really lit up when he sat down to play!
As I got older, I realized how much I had missed by giving it up. Now I really enjoy listening to contemporary piano players like Jim Brickman, George Winston, Gary Girouard, Brian Crain, Michael Jones, Suzanne Ciani, Yann Tiersen (Comptine d’un autre été) and many others.