No Guarantees

We all know that there is no guarantee of success. In the field of music if that is our thing. Or any other area of ambition.

This is true even if we have a clear idea of what “success” might look like for us. Even if we set realistic goals. No Guarantees.

This makes the steps along the way to that distant goal even more important. Do we enjoy them in themselves? Or could we learn to?

In fact to learn to find contentment and purpose in the steps we are taking right now is perhaps, itself, the ultimate goal. Though it can all sometimes feel a little bit like unravelling the onion and finding that there is nothing in the middle when we arrive.

But that is simply not true. This very moment our conscious minds, and the senses that supply them, are full to the brim with things to notice, to enjoy, or to learn from. If that is “all” there is, it’s still quite wonderful.

And that remains true even if the first thing we notice is our tendency to be never quite satisfied with all the things we could be noticing, enjoying and learning from right now. And the additional tendency to be distracted by the weird internal conversations and battles we seem to have with ourselves.

We’re alive. And we’re conscious. Frickin’ amazing.