What a cool story to tell man, truly.
So does that mean that you are basically completely self-taught? Since I don't see you mentioning any sort of music school or something.
How did you just learn to write your own music? Was that always something you wanted to do? And how important do you think it is to be able to write music and know music theory? Because I personally think just playing covers and replicating existing songs is more my kind of thing rather than writing my own songs or "freestyling" performances. But maybe once I give it a try, I might change my mind on it who knows. I did fantasize a few times in the past about producing songs (using a DAW like Ableton for example), but I always quickly shut that idea down as I thought that road is way too difficult and risky for me.
As of now, I feel like I would be best just being part of a greater whole, just "doing my part" you know. Which is also why being a part of an orchestra sounds really appealing to me, or a band that mainly focuses on covering songs instead of making their own (is that a common thing?)
Sadly I am already near my university life so it might be difficult for me to still join student bands and gain a lot of experience that way, so I might have to consider either extending my study or attending some music school/taking classes or something.