Taking Chances

Have you ever thought of doing something, something fantastic or even mundane? Did you roll the thought through your head twisting it this way and that before dismissing it roundly from your mind? I am impetuous by nature, impulsive to a fault (on most things anyway), but I have done the same, we all have. Accepting an invite to a party for example, has thrown me into serious internal debate, do I? Don't I? I have work to do sooo... I won't go - well maybe for an hour...

Taking a chance, whether small or great, can bestow the best of life's gifts. The best thing that ever happened to me, happened at a gathering I wasn't planning to attend. Seems like an inconsequential chance to take but in taking that chance, my life was upended and has never been the same.

Because I took that chance (wait for it - it's a love story) I met the love of my life. For this man, this love, I have conquered both internal and external summits, have surprised myself with what I am able to do. I have also been surprised by the love I have received; it is the stuff of chick flicks - but better.

It has made me look at life very differently, how things happen to align in such a way that the path we had originally set upon becomes entirely different as we travel along. I never believed in fate, destiny, not to the extent as I have witnessed it. I had believed that destiny was a quaint scapegoat for the pitfalls of life and to act as a salve to explain away why someone else has the life you want. I don't recognize my life now, after the first chance meeting from a chance decision, I have taken bigger and bigger chances in life some so large that I have shocked myself.

The moral of this story, dear friends, is that if you have an inkling to pursue something (or someone), give pause to the fact that the inkling came from somewhere, somewhere that may have a better idea than your conscious mind does. Believe it or not even the smallest chance can be overlooked; you may be embarking on the biggest adventure of your life!