At 60, I picked up a beautifully made La Patríe "Collection" acoustic nylon string guitar (thank you small Canadian village of La Patríe).  I persisted for 5 years to work my way through Fredrick Noad's guitar lessons.  I could then read music and finger-pick and chord.
I went to Meet Up guitar sessions locally but they lapsed into mostly country or bluegrass.  I am interested in Jazz.  There is a diminishing group of jazz enthusiasts.  I considered starting my own group but then one sees how difficult it is to arrange meetings and find a time when others have the same feeling for a piece.  I realized that I didn't need to do this and deal with moods and travel.  There is a collaborative website that allows sharing of tracks and talents from anywhere all of the time: Kompoz.com.  I have been a member since 2013.
As of June 2019 (now at 73), I have made 73 Collaborations, Joined 102 and Uploaded 533 tracks.  I have been privileged to work with professional musicians with similar tastes in music.
I decided to try blowing flute for some way to sustain notes other than using electric guitar (which is what most use).  The student flute only cost about $200 and it took a frustrating week to make a sustained solid sounding note on it.  I decided to just depend on my brain to rewrite my responses to produce the desired notes upon listening to a song.  I just turned to some of my favorite jazz songs on Pandora and played a random set for flute learning. Within a year I could confidently come in anywhere in a song without thinking about what note to play--just by ear.  Now I have a list of over 600 favorites in Pandora that I play to for practice and pleasure.  So when it comes to adding a track on Kompoz, it feels like a joy to join and harmonize.  My rewiring has worked better than imagined and allows complete freedom from thinking about music classically in scores.  I don't perform, I share freely.

Likewise with my music.  IF any song can bring about a moment's joy in others it is worth more than money.