Destiny, Fate or Lottery Win...?!!

Why I was predestined to end up here even though I don’t believe in destiny.

When I was 5 my Mum took guitar lessons, only for a short while but watching her play set something alight in me. I had already developed a love of music even at that age and from then on it grew & grew! We’d watch Top Of The Pops, listen to the Top 40 every week & I’d obsess over my parents record collection. Music was always on in the car, I got Walkman’s, Diskmans and stereos I had on constantly. I loved (and continue to love) music so much.

To continue...! My mum bought a piano for my brother to learn but he was judged too young by the teacher (I was around 8-9) and a few years later I would get a taste too but the method of learning (terrible teacher) and the time (it would be decades before I developed the skills I needed to really learn) wasn’t right but the seed was sewn.

Around the time I stopped learning piano a girl in my music class tried out a set of drums during our class. Rare for a set to be there but maybe it was fate!! She could just do it (Sam could just do EVERYTHING!) and I remember feeling sooooo incredibly jealous and in awe too. It had never occurred to me girls could play drums and it still didn’t that “I” could. As I grew older my friends at school always seemed to played guitar and I wanted to so badly too but even when I got one I didn’t know what to do with it. I just never seemed to be able to germinate that seed.

And so it was sewn and left buried..... for decades. As a final twist it turns out my dad was a fan of drumming (explains why he took me to jazz sessions as a kid ... I HATED it) and actually had a kit at one point but it never took. I only discovered that very recently too. So as crazy as this life is, it isn’t as surprising as it might seem. My great grandfather was a radio pianist, very talented from what I’ve heard. My mum was drawn to guitar & piano, my dad drums and I was fed GREAT music constantly from an early age. It was always there and once the sapling finally appeared it was always going to grow into something incredibly big.

This wasn’t predictable in any way, quite the opposite in fact but it certainly shows how it happened isn’t random at all.