Do you ever stop and wonder these words and thoughts in your mind? What if?....
What if you didn’t catch that red light?
What if you hadn’t forgotten something forcing you to return home?
What if you took that job?
What if you hadn’t met that person?
What if you went to that other school instead? The list seems to never end.
I myself don’t believe in coincidences.
Because of this belief I often find myself thinking about how life would be if certain situations or events had or had not taken place.
Life could have been very different if other paths were chosen. Sometimes we may even encounter situations in life that seem very serendipitous.
It’s as if something happens by chance but it changes your life in such a positive, yet significant way. It could be a chance meeting of a person that just happened to be at the same place at the same time.
It could be someone you know calling you by mistake yet a conversation begins and you end up with a new career because of it.
The what if’s are endless however I feel we are who we are as individuals because of all of our interactions, decisions and events that have transpired throughout our lives. We may question some decisions and may even say to ourselves,
I would never have done that or made that choice if I could go back and do it all over again.
The truth is that everything we have ever been a part of in our life has shaped us in some way.
We become stronger because of hard times.
We become more sensitive and understanding because we know what it feels like to be humbled or affected by something or someone.
We value more because we know what it’s like to work hard to get something we want.
We love and appreciate others because we treasure what it feels like to be loved and appreciated.
There are so many times and moments where you can stop and reflect about everything you have done and will do in your life.
In the grand scheme of it all it seems that our What ifs have not just affected ourselves. Our lives have affected others as well.
Our part in this journey of life plays a big part in others journeys also.
We often question what if we hadn’t met that person but on the flip side of that is
what if they hadn’t met us?
What are your what ifs?
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