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Your ability with languages will give you a pretty good indication of how well you might do at the mental side of music. How easily do you learn new languages? How quickly do you add new vocabulary or constructs to your primary language? When you are thrown into an environment that has it's own technical jargon, are you able to grasp the meaning of words that you aren't familiar with by their usage? If you ever do any rhetorical speaking, are you able to use things like cadence and pace to good effect?
The language center of the brain is closely related to the musical center of the brain. If you excel at one, there is a good chance that you will be able to excel at the other.
Keep in mind that this is just the mental aspect of the game, but that's the most important part. The rest is just athletics, the ability to move certain parts of the body with precision and consistency. That's actually pretty easy to train.
I say go for it. In five years, you'll be five years older no matter what. You can either be five years older and know how to play an instrument, or just five years older.
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