My life changed at 1:30 today. It was an ordinary day.
There was a moment in my life where two different and drastically different paths lay ahead of me. The choice was completely out of my hands. That choice was held by someone else.
This is the path that I ended up on. Can I say that this path is better? No because I don’t know where the other one would have led. The other one definitely would have been unpleasant at the start. I might have overcome it and who knows what that might have meant.
I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t have ended up teaching. I wouldn’t have taken the “risks” I would have had to take to get here. And if I would have taken the leap my life path would have beeen in someones hands. It would have meant a second chance. That would have been out of my hands.
The decision made was beneficial to me. It may have simply came to the fact that the person of power was the friend of my dad. More importantly maybe it was how I had lived my life. That was told to me so it did factor.
Two years ago I was standing in a line at blockbuster. If anyone in the distant future reads it we used to get videos from stores:). A “kid” started gushing on how without me he wouldn’t have made it through middle school and high school math. That year of sixth grade I spent a few days after school helping a couple of my students. Simply my time. Was I paid anything. I can’t count the wealth gained. It was a five minute conversation.
That was an unordinary day. Today was an ordinary day. Two drastically different paths were not present.
And it happened at 1:30.