what tomorrow will bring

coincidence or a matter of pure luck?

today I started thinking about choice and how the choices we make inevitably lead us in new directions. whether we are aware of it or not, all the choices we make in life shape our lives in some way. take for example, me. the day [insert name here] broke up with me I was destroyed. but when I think about it now, had he never broken my heart, I may have never decided to move to hawaii, start graduate school, take a practicum course that took me to vietnam, meet a dane, spend three amazing weeks in denmark, and start contemplating the next stage of my life. thank you [insert name here]. without losing you I would have never had the courage to experience half the things I’ve experienced (case in point: I’m on a train in the middle of norway getting ready to hike the norwegian fjords!).

so what is this? Is someone trying to tell me something? I want to believe that whatever this is means something. after all, isn’t it true that all things happen for a reason?

even if hawaii doesn’t turn out to be the right place for me, it was somewhere I needed to be in order to end up here. I quote the Tao of Pooh, “one day you will look back and realize that these things had to happen in order for things to work out this other way.” I remember reading this for the first time three years ago and thinking “please let it be true!” now that I’ve had some time to think it over, I feel that there is a plan for everyone, but you won’t know what it is until you’re there – and even then it could change.

never think that things won’t get better. you never know what tomorrow will bring.

hønefoss station, norway 6/28/10