Everything Happens For A Reason

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be. -Douglas Adams

For those that do not know me, and even for those who do, I am a big believer in everything happening for a reason. I may not always know the reason, but I believe that it was meant to happen. The reason I bring this up is that, one night last week my friend asked me if I was happy. I thought about it for a few seconds and replied, "Yes and no."

Let me begin with the "no" answer. I cannot say that I am unhappy, for I am not. However, considering that this is not where I wanted to be at this time in my life, a year and a half after graduating college, yes, in a way, I am unhappy, but only in the sense of how everything turned out. Things did not go as I had planned. If I had known that this is where I would have ended up now, I would not have set my hopes so high, and it would have made the transition from college to the real world easier. It would have made realizing that my dreams might not happen, or might not happen the way I wanted them to happen, easier.

But yes, I am happy with my life as it is, despite how things ended up. No, I did not end up where I wanted to be at this time in my life, but I do believe I am where I am supposed to be. I believe that I was supposed to end up here-- unemployed, living at home, trying a number of times to succeed on the LSATs and get into law school, and single. Of this I have no doubt. I am where I am supposed to be.

I believe that everything happens for a reason, including all of this. I may not know all, or any of the reasons, but I do not need to know them. All I need to know is that this is where I am in my life and this is where I was supposed to end up, and that I am who I am because of it. And I am happy, very happy.