Sherbet. It's been over a month. I am disgraced. That does not mean by any means the music stopped playing. No. It does mean that life took over and then some other things took over and then a mate rocked up with a bottle of tequila and things got weird and Irish and then I woke up today and thought to myself enough, enough now (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KtVKu9CfDA). Which got me thinking on how I ended up where I am right now, physically in London, emotionally a bit of mare, socially...well it's Saturday night and I sit in my wonderful flat in SW London doing this...
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And I am reminded that life just has its way of figuring things out for us.
I decided at the age of 15 that I did NOT, I repeat NOT want to be an accountant. I deliberately refused to take accounting at high school out of sheer determination to avoid that career at all costs. Turns out no high school accounting was needed to get into university accounting - balls.
So where then did I go so wrong?!
I went to a career advisor - they put me in front of a computer made me answer what felt like THOUSANDS of questions that all really asked the same thing 'Are you good at numbers, do you like people, are you quiet or loud...?' blah blah blah. And then out comes a very good summary of who I should have become. However, more importantly 'Accountant' was at the top of the list of 'don't touch this career with a barge pole'. Anyway, I remember vividly looking over the form when I got home and thinking to myself - bollocks - I'll do it my way. Hence nearly EIGHT years post high school I am sitting on a Saturday evening (heaven forbid, Nicola!) studying tax so I can qualify as an accountant at the end of the year - joy.
BUT, I would not have done it any other way. The same mate that rocked up on my door with the tequila is one that I met in my first year maths class at uni. A maths class that I would not have been in if I heeded the call to go into ninja calligraphy or the like. The company I now work for would never have hired me if I had not completed the degree I did at uni which means the people that I have met at work and in London in general would forever have been strangers, a disastrous thought. The qualification I am aiming to get will open the doors to whatever the future has in store. The grafting is getting done in order to lay the stones of a remarkable life that lies ahead. And in the mean time I will dream, dream of the Serengeti migration, the NYC skyline at dusk, the islands of Hong Kong, the thirst quenching Guinness of Ireland, the cobblestone streets of Rome and the beauty of my home town Cape Town.
So to answer my question above - turns out I never went wrong. We never do, we just move forward, making the best of it and learning things to help us later on in life, I hope...
Not so much music in this one but here are some chooooons that are spurring these thoughts I suppose.
Looking Too Closely - Fink
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoWRs7lXtYE
Little Giant - Roo Panes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3J1oKQcp-c
Too the North - Matthew and the Atlas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJJkE5lmmpA
I Wonder - Rodriquez
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6bjqdll7DI
Wandering Man - David Ramirez
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH8uMshOEWM
And I am reminded that life just has its way of figuring things out for us.
I decided at the age of 15 that I did NOT, I repeat NOT want to be an accountant. I deliberately refused to take accounting at high school out of sheer determination to avoid that career at all costs. Turns out no high school accounting was needed to get into university accounting - balls.
So where then did I go so wrong?!
I went to a career advisor - they put me in front of a computer made me answer what felt like THOUSANDS of questions that all really asked the same thing 'Are you good at numbers, do you like people, are you quiet or loud...?' blah blah blah. And then out comes a very good summary of who I should have become. However, more importantly 'Accountant' was at the top of the list of 'don't touch this career with a barge pole'. Anyway, I remember vividly looking over the form when I got home and thinking to myself - bollocks - I'll do it my way. Hence nearly EIGHT years post high school I am sitting on a Saturday evening (heaven forbid, Nicola!) studying tax so I can qualify as an accountant at the end of the year - joy.
BUT, I would not have done it any other way. The same mate that rocked up on my door with the tequila is one that I met in my first year maths class at uni. A maths class that I would not have been in if I heeded the call to go into ninja calligraphy or the like. The company I now work for would never have hired me if I had not completed the degree I did at uni which means the people that I have met at work and in London in general would forever have been strangers, a disastrous thought. The qualification I am aiming to get will open the doors to whatever the future has in store. The grafting is getting done in order to lay the stones of a remarkable life that lies ahead. And in the mean time I will dream, dream of the Serengeti migration, the NYC skyline at dusk, the islands of Hong Kong, the thirst quenching Guinness of Ireland, the cobblestone streets of Rome and the beauty of my home town Cape Town.
So to answer my question above - turns out I never went wrong. We never do, we just move forward, making the best of it and learning things to help us later on in life, I hope...
Not so much music in this one but here are some chooooons that are spurring these thoughts I suppose.
Looking Too Closely - Fink
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoWRs7lXtYE
Little Giant - Roo Panes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3J1oKQcp-c
Too the North - Matthew and the Atlas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJJkE5lmmpA
I Wonder - Rodriquez
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6bjqdll7DI
Wandering Man - David Ramirez
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH8uMshOEWM
