They say that they built the tracks over the Alps between Venice and Vienna before there was a train that could make the trip. They built them anyway. They knew that …someday the train would come
~ Under the Tuscan Sun
There are bizarre moments in your life when you realize that this is it, this is what it feels like to be complete within yourself, to have all the wheels and all the cogs turning together in harmony, this is what it feels like to be happy.
It’s difficult to describe when those moments come, you can find a million words to talk about them, but the words are never the right ones.
Sitting in the showroom this evening, watching an act I had seen and smiled through many times before, in a showroom I knew and loved, on a ship that has served me as I have served her for most of my career at sea – I cast my eyes to the right of the performers, and I realized that finally, all the aspects of my life had centered in one spot. I was watching the show alone, yes, but I wasn’t alone. I was sitting with a team that appreciated me, and laughed with me, and talked to me, and I was watching a backing band that accepted me…led by a friend who has been through so much with me that for a very long while I was convinced our train tracks were doomed to take us in separate directions. Perhaps that may end up still being the case, it’s impossible to say what the future is going to bring for the next ten seconds, let alone the next ten minutes or ten years..
But in that moment, in that one shining moment, sitting, clapping and laughing along to an extremely good imitation of Frankie Valley and the Four Seasons – I realized that what one of my favourite holiday movies told me growing up is absolutely true. And that my Mum was right to repeat it to me so often
Just do your best every day, and life will…fall into place.
Safe travels everyone.