A Singer In A Smoky Room... Sometimes You Don't Need To Go To It. Life Finds You Wherever You Are. Maybe You're Right Where You're Meant To Be.

Just a small town girl,
Living in a lonely world,
She took the midnight train going anywhere...

Just a city boy,
Born and raised in South Detroit,
He took the midnight train going anywhere...

A singer in a smoky room,
The smell of wine and cheap perfume...
For a smile they can share the night,
It goes on and on and on and on...

Journey - Don't Stop Believing.

What does this song say to you?

To me, it says that there are many people in this world, random strangers to you and me and we're all just waiting. Waiting for that moment, to meet, and to enter each others' lives. Who knows what serendipitous step you might take, like the two totally unconnected individuals both boarding the "midnight train going anywhere" and the singer in "a smoky room", which could take you to places you never imagined and form unexpected connections with people you never thought about?

I began my journey obsessive, controlling, I needed to steer my life and exactly where I was headed. I knew where I wanted to go, Taylors, for there was my crowd. There was where I belonged.

But a twist of events and I don't quite know how but I ended up in the MPC. I resented it at first. Thought that I had just jumped into a pool of ducks and I was the only goose. I couldn't see how things could work out here. I felt like I was out of place.

Then things happened for me, and now I realize that wherever you are, you're there for a reason. You were put there for a reason.

I met wonderful people at the MPC, I formed beautiful friendships. I learned so much it still bewilders me sometimes, and now when I think of it, if I had not gone to the MPC, there would've been so many people I would've never met and so many things that would've never happened for me. It's all connected. And it's all possible because, I came to the MPC instead of going to Taylors.

So I know now, I realize it now that wherever you are, you were put there for a reason. It's the path you're supposed to be on. And as humans we cannot see the future, but I'd like to think that someone up there has it all planned out for us and has nudged us here for the specific purpose of showing us just that.

Maybe I was rerouted to the MPC instead of going to Taylors for a reason. I may not realize it but coming to the MPC might have been the step I needed to take to reach where I want to be and someone up there knows better than me. That's why I'm here.

As Water always says, "Have faith".

And so that is why now I no longer stress too much about where I go, be it the UK or Australia. Because if things can happen for me in an "unknown dump" like the MPC, then who knows, maybe wherever I end up going, things will happen for me there too.

I once thought it was impossible to get what I wanted if I did not go to the exact place I planned to go, but now I know that it isn't true. The most unexpected, and pleasant surprises can come to you even in the place where you would least expect it.

Maybe wherever I go, it is the place where I was meant to be, and it is there my future awaits me. It is the place where things will happen for me and it is where I will find my, pardon the "cliche", destiny. Maybe it is where I will find my dreams, and where I will fulfill my utmost desires, whether it be the UK, Australia or the USA.

It is not true that your calling can only find you if you go to one specific place. Life finds you anywhere you go, and who knows, maybe if you let go a little and go with the flow, it will take you to beautiful places you never thought you could reach. Whichever of the three countries I end up going, I have faith that my dreams will come knocking on my door and I will be able to take another step forward, just like it did here eventhough I am in the MPC instead of where I was "supposed" to be.