Don't Stop Believin'

No, this entry is not about Journey, or Rock of Ages, or any other pop culture references.

Admittedly, the last few weeks have been a little rough on the ego. A few people who are aware of my situation have even said as much. It's difficult to be on the up and up, and get thrashed around like a rag doll.

I was reading an article about a baseball who use to be one of the better pitchers, but is getting killed this year. It was advice from an older pitcher (from an opposing team) to him. He said something along the lines of, pitch smarter, don't try to get the strikeout on every pitch, but stay aggressive and believe in your stuff.

I've heard more than a few times that I will eventually find somebody. While I understand that people are trying to make me feel better, it never really did. But for some reason, the way the advice given to the pitcher, seemed to strike a chord in me (no pun intended).

For starters (again no put intended), nobody can promise that something will happen. That makes it incredibly difficult for me to take solace in the above line. Why should I believe it? It's not so much advice, as much as it's consolation.

Where this guy's advice to the struggling pitcher affected me was, that it's not that he's saying things will turn around. He doesn't know that. But he believes that the guy's talent, ability and work ethic that should hold up, and he just has to trust that will be enough to make things work out. I guess that's what I have to remember. That no matter how much I get beat up, that if I trust that I'm a good catch (wow, no pun intended again), eventually it'll happen. But I have to keep being aggressive, and putting myself out there. Because if I don't, that's a sure fire way that it won't happen.

Now for those of you that came here looking for Journey, here you go.




Journey - Don't Stop Believing

Just a small town girl

livin 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

a smell of wine and cheap perfume
f
or a smile they can share the night

it goes on and on and on and on

(Refrain)


Strangers, waiting, up and down the boulevard

their shadows searching in the night

streetlight people, living just to find emotion

hiding somewhere in the night



working hard to get my fill

everybody wants a thrill

paying anything to roll the dice

just one more time

some will win, some will lose

some were born to sing the blues


oh the movie never ends

it goes on and on and on and on




(Refrain)


Don't stop believing 

hold on to that feeling