So I’m writing this from South Beach, Miami, the land of fake smiles, fake breasts and fake beaches (all imported sand apparently). I arrived here on Wednesday evening for the Winter Music Conference, an annual gathering/big knees-up for the dance music industry. It’s been incredible just to get out here – I only found out the Thursday before that I was being sent out by the record label I work for – and the whole experience has been really encouraging.Timing can be a funny thing. Just last week I was feeling bored, frustrated and confused; wondering if I was running up a blind alley with the label but also feeling like this is what I’m meant to be doing for now and that I need to just stick with it. Then I found out that I was coming out to Miami, had to prepare with very little time and had to blag time off my other job; suddenly life was interesting again! My time out here has been really encouraging too because so many people have been really positive about the label, we’ve heard quite a few of our tracks played out, I’ve received compliments about the work I’m doing, and I’m just generally feeling it – feeling like this is something I can do and should be doing right now and feeling that God’s really in it with me.
So I’m feeling good about things at the moment, but I know those times of feeling bored and frustrated will return again, those times when I’m fed up with working myself to the ground with little reward, those times when I fear I’m wasting my time, those times when it’s tough and I just need to push on; it’s inevitable these times will come. I guess the key is to celebrate and savour these moments when it all clicks together and to remember, cherish and use them to push on when life’s not so peachy. I’m glad my life’s not always easy and obvious, that sometimes I just have to push on, that I’m rarely satisfied with the ordinary, that it’s an unpredictable adventure – if it wasn’t I wouldn’t get crazy last-minute trips out to Miami, and I rather like those!
