Re: [Response.] You don't have to read far to know if you like the book in front of you. People talk about taste as if it's something that you build up in layers, but I think it just comes down to people liking what they like. I like Northanger Abbey, but I've read it. Bronte and Austen, I've read all of both.
People don't fit like puzzle pieces at all, which I think is why it feels like it's all corners and no squares. I'm not sure what this is, sunshine, but I don't think it manages easily. Your military schedule sounds like you do more than serve tea, but give me a weekend you're not caught up brewing for scientists and we'll catch an ocean.
Music makes you feel. It hits a dozen different places in the brain which is the biology of it, but really music can set the hairs on your arms up, it can make you feel your breath in the back of your throat catch. It can make you laugh or cry. I like to play it because I like to be in the middle of it rather than listen. Maybe you'd feel it differently if you did too.