During a particularly difficult period — internal conflict, external pressures, the feeling of having no one who truly understood — I found piano.
I am not a gifted singer. My voice is ordinary. But sitting at the keys and playing, I found a form of expression that bypassed the limitations of words. Something that could hold what language couldn’t.
Art has this quality. It reaches into places where ordinary support systems can’t follow. When everything else falls short, a song sometimes manages to say what needed to be said.
I wish happiness, peace, and self-reliance to anyone who is finding their way through a difficult season.
— Thiện Minh