Wednesday 21 June 2017

Something Sheryl Crow Sang

© Melissa Gaggiano
I've had this Sheryl Crow album since I was about seventeen, in which she sang:

"No one said it would be easy
But no one said it'd be this hard"

This line is true of anyone fleshing out their own career/future/path/destiny/or whatever and they only have themselves to say 'yep this is right', 'you're on the path that you need to be on'.

You feel like you're doing it right when that figurative cheque with your name on it comes your way. But what happens in the quiet corners of your work day, between the projects, when you don't know what to focus on next? How does one move through that thick cloud of doubt?

Sometimes we don't. Sometimes we get stuck. Sometimes it takes all our effort to move forward. To say yes, let's start this thing, and who knows what it will bring.

Thankfully there's another line in that same Sheryl Crow song that goes:

"No one said it would be easy
No one thought we'd come this far"

I guess she knew when she wrote that song that as hard as things get, we can still make it if we at least try.