Life-Changing Event

When I found a piano at a friend's house at a play date at five years old, or it found me, I instantly could play harmony and melody without even knowing how. The mother came upon me as she was picking me up and didn't know what to make of it all. I remember that it was literally like coming up from under the water after holding your breath for five years. Suddenly the world as I knew it was like the moment in The Wizard of Oz when everything is black and white, you have the tornado, and she comes out of the broken-down house and opens up to the land of Oz with this beautiful color. For me, it was this moment of something that reflected a presence of innate knowing that life was about truth, beauty, and goodness. There was something in me that knew that life, like Rudolf Steiner says, is essentially about truth, beauty, and goodness.