Do all things happen as they should? When they should? Where they should?
For instance, back in the 1990s when I did not have a cell phone, I missed a phone call.
I had gone from work to a party at a female friend's house on a Friday. I had a few drinks and didn't want to drive home, so I stayed the night in her guest room.
When I got home around lunchtime Saturday, I found a message on my telephone answering machine about a job. They were filming a movie in town and wanted me as an extra that weekend.
I missed the call. I missed the opportunity.
I had sent in an application for the acting job as a lark and never expected to be called.
At the time, I was devastated. My life could have been very different if I had been home to take that call. I would have met so many new people!
It is true that I never experienced the friendships I would have made through that job. I never learned the things that job would have taught me, but I have to believe that I was not meant to know those people. Maybe they did not deserve to know me. Maybe I did not deserve to know them. Maybe they would have made me miserable or somehow caused me harm. Maybe maybe maybe....
Maybe I need to just have faith that I am, right now, today, exactly where I am supposed to be.
Maybe missing the opportunity is the real opportunity.
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