Started to play again 4 years ago, have been taking lessons for about 1½ year now.
I don't have to tell you again why I started but RIGHT NOW my goal is to learn and to evolve. I like the challenges of learning new and interesting pieces and I guess I do this mainly for the "kick" of mastering (well ...

) something I couldn't do for my life before. I like to explore strategies and techniques; in short, I think this is good for me as a person, in all the other areas of life.
I also play because I like the music so much and because I need to get away from family issues and other things.
Another reason is that I think I understand and enjoy concerts/recitals better the more I study piano myself.
More specific goals are to learn the whole Appassionata sonata, which I really love, and to learn and spread some works by the wonderful Teresa Carreño who is sadly neglected. I also see myself as an "advocate" for middle-age pianists who want to play as amateurs and do it
seriously. In my country you either go for it, all in, from young years and then you go to conservatories and competetions and master classes and yada yada yada, or you don't play at all. Or you dabble a bit when you are 40 and learn some "basic chords" and the theme to "My Heart Will Go On" and so on. But God forbid that you make it a serious hobby. This attitude in my country really stinks, IMO, so I want to change that. People think I am totally crazy because I dream of learning the Appassionata (at least I have learned mv 2 so far) and take lessons with established concert pianists and so on - yeah, WHO DO I THINK I AM? - but I hope this can inspire more people of my age to do the same.
We also have only one (1) radio channel where classical music seems to be allowed to be played, classical music is systematically ignored and mocked (the term "fine arts" is an invective here) and the best classical artists have to play for half empty concert halls, at their best.
Do I live in the inner part of the Gobi Desert then? No, I live in Sweden!!!