Mind Sprocket: The Back Page : The Way Things are Supposed to Be?

I guess everyone wonders about this at some time or another …

Sometimes I wish I had gone to a different college, one in another state, maybe. I would have met different people, enjoyed a different environment than y hometown offered, etc. But I wonder, if I hadn’t gone there, would I even be living where I am now? Would I have this job that I have now? Would I be friends with the same people? Would there be people that I would never have met at all?

So in a way, it’s a relief that I did things the way I did them, since I’m pretty darn happy with my life right now. If I had done things a different way, I could be living in, who knows, Nebraska. I could be married to a preacher. I could be a crazy cat lady. I could be a baker. Who knows?

But then again, let’s say I went to college in CA instead of in PA. I assume that I wouldn’t have met the same people, and wouldn’t have done the same things … but what if I did, through other circumstances? The inexcapable future, the things that are made and meant to happen … I don’t know if I buy all of it, but it’s kind of neat to think that maybe this is the way things are supposed to be and no matter how I tried to change my destiny, these good things would still cross my path and I would never miss out.

And I know there are probably fifty differnet ways to look at this, and not all of them positive … but let me have a little bit of fun thinking that I’m where I’m supposed to be