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Reminds me of a story from one of my photography instructors. He asked the class to raise their hand if they could draw. Two hands went up to which he replied “I didn’t ask who can draw well”. He then told the following.
He was driving his 6 year old daughter home from school when she asked him what he did that day. He replied “I taught my students how to draw”. She incredulously asked, “when did they forget?”.
As kids we know how to draw, sing, act, etc. and we have no expectations of how good or bad we are, we just do it. As we get older we start to critique and self-edit ourselves and suppress these skills because we “don’t do them well” when we should embrace who we are what we can do. We have the ability to improve the skills if so inclined or we can just embrace who we are an go with it.
I recall a post by @Loraine where she was hesitant to post videos of herself playing but then realized it brought her joy and she was doing it for herself. Some where good, some where rough around the edges but she wasn’t going to let that stop her. We all need to be more like Loraine.