g00b's ramblings about life and love

#1

I had an epiphany moment this last semester during a lecture by a teacher that I liked fairly well. While telling us about her life and especially about the time in her life when her 20 year old son died in a car accident, she said something to the class that spoke volumes to me in that moment.

"God always puts you where you need to be".

Now to most it might not seem like much, maybe even a small little phrase. But to me, looking back, call it fate, call it divine intervention, call it whatever, but EVERYTHING that has happened in my life has lead me up to this moment......this day........this situation.

Even the guys I dated have had a hand in leading me up to be in Nursing School.

Now I have two turning points in my life.

One, flying for the first time to see a friend who has meant the world to me in the past few months. She takes my breath away. She has been through so much and seen so many closed doors in her face, but she has withstood it all to be the wonderful person she is today. She is a daughter, a sister, a wife, a mother, and a truly wonderful friend to me. I do not know what I ever did to deserve someone like her, but I am thankful every day I have her. So thank you Jamie. Happy Mother's Day and I hope we get to spend several more together.

Two, Micheal had his own epiphany of sorts while being in Virginia. After being discharged from the Navy just a week and a half ago, he realized he wasn't where he needed to be. He packed everything he had into his car, he explained as nicely as he could I'm sure to his then girlfriend, and he started driving yesterday from Virginia back to Mississippi. At 4:45 this morning he crashed at his Mother's house which is only 30 min away from my house.

For the majority of the 13 hour drive we were on the phone and discussing things and just talking like we used to. No matter how much time goes by, no matter what each of us go through, we still connect. Of course there was the same ol' playful banter that we always had and loved, but there would be hours of serious conversation. Micheal always walked away from me. Whether it was to get on the plane to go on his deployment, or getting back on the plane to go back to Virginia. This time......I have to walk away from him. I'm not sure of what will come of all of this, or if anything ever will. But this is sure to be one hell of a summer.

I am thankful. I am excited. I am scared. I am nervous.

(and I'm done rambling)

#2

Wow...

I think its awesome to observer life through the eyes of others...It's been a great experience in the few short weeks that it has been to see you and our friend Witchy make the most out of bad situations...

You're right about one thing, time is the essence...It's hard to think about it on that scale, but everything you do can have enormous implications...I can't wait to hear about you and Witchy's trip, I think that's incredibly awesome...

Thanks for shaing..!

#3

God does always put us where we need to be. I completely agree with you. It's awesome that everything seems to be working out for you! Hopefully it'll continue to get better for ya!

#4

Dude you made me get all teary...I am soo gonna kick your ass for that lol..Kisses your pretty great yourself...I have good taste in friends.

#5

Well........out of 3 friends you might have 1 good taste. LOL Your taste buds were off when you picked the psycho. LMAO

I'm just kidding ya. Everybody (obviously) makes mistakes.

BTW - did you get my ADD voice mail?