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| Posted by: Emory Schley |
10/29/2007 4:56 AM |
Have you ever stopped to consider what a huge role simple coincidences play in the average person’s life? It’s almost stunning to realize that any number of steps along the way to wherever we find ourselves today could have resulted in a change of direction for our entire lives. It was only by the greatest of coincidences that I met my future wife, some 41 and a half years ago. We never should have met at all, but because of various mis-steps along the path of life, we did finally meet, sparks ignited and soon we were married.
I’ve spent almost four decades in the newspaper game, and that never should have happened either. If not for a few little insignificant steps off the pathway of life, I probably would have wound up in a totally different line of work.
How many people do you know who went to college and studied economics, let’s say, then wound up as truck drivers; or how many studied political science and wound up as salespeople or in some field totally unrelated to their course of study? The figures, if fully known, would most likely be quite staggering! I once knew a fellow who had majored in sculpture in college, then when I knew him later in his life, he earned his living with a camera. A few years later still, he became a light bulb salesman, neither field being one which his studies of sculpture would encourage or even suggest. Life is just like that. It’s more like a bouncing football than a bowling ball rolling smoothly down an alley. First it bounces one way, then hits and bounces in a totally different direction, spinning first one way then another, as it tumbles unpredictably. I don’t believe I’ve ever seen a person live his life out in a manner like he or she originally planned.
Kind of makes you wonder if planning and a college education actually do any real good in Life, doesn’t it? I guess the best any of us can ever do is try to make logical plans, follow them as well as we can – then keep our fingers crossed, and hang on as Life starts taking a few of those old football bounces! |
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