This is just my perspective, but one of the very few things I really enjoyed as a kid was playing an instrument.. guitar first, then drums as a teenager. I believe that growing up a bit rough, music kept me out of trouble. Even when you don’t have a great ambitions, there is still a lot to gain: - thanks to practicing you develop sense for systematically getting thigs done - musicians, like other artists, might develop complicated personalities, but during the high school years, most of them are still OK (also musicians/artists are usually nice people in general), so it’s likely you find yourself a good set of friends. Plus you practice dealing with complicated people as they’re slowly turning into the damn artist clichés 😂 - playing in a band keeps you occupied so you don’t mess with stuff like alcohol and drugs in a forbidden alley somewhere... worst case - you mess with that with people you trust in a safe space of your rehearsal room - being a musician and receiving positive feedback on something I put a ton of time into helped me manage low self-esteem - which is a shitty state to deal with during the teenage years - bonus benefit of being a drummer is that you get to get the best girls there are - not the fancy showy barbies that usually go after guitarists, or the pretty but weird types that end with bass players and definitely not the psychos who are chasing singers. No sir, drummers usualy get the rare combination of pretty AND smart.