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Thankfully I have never expected much out of life, I was focused on surviving day to day. I am no where near where I would like to be but at the same time I am a million miles from where I've been. The worst is behind, ... hopefully.
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I say enjoy the journey, life is what happens while you're busy making plans:) I was a teenage mother at 17 and at 19, regrets? Yes & no would I be who I am today without thoses experiences? Could I have done better for my children, my family, myself? Blah blah blah Live in the moment it's where we are. We learn to think about our actions by the effects it has in our lives, but we can't over project.
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I'm back on track and realize that I took the scenic route. There's been some bad "turns" in my life, but I chose them and learned from them.
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Who says you "need" to be anywhere? You could say that about a number of situations... To me, it's almost as if you're justifying your tangent with some foretold destiny crap.
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I am not happy...I am not gone where I intended to go...I am sad about it but I think I still have lot of time to go where I want to go...I am 23 only....I have faith...!!!!
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I'm happy to be where I need to be. If I went to where I wanted to go, I would still be going nowhere. I'm happy to let God lead me to what He has for me, which will always be a much better plan than anything I can come up with.
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I am not sure I am where I ever intended to be, but I am happy with where I have come. For me, I believe I had/have a purpose in life, and although I know some on here do not believe as I do-I believe I had a special plan for my life. I do believe in free will and choice, and boy did I make some doozies. However, I learned each and every step of the way, and although I know I wasted some valuable time, sure I believe I am where I need to be. Sad because I wasted time, but happy because of the people in my life now who I love deeply, and for finding peace and moving on. I am ready to continue to seek, learn and grow--and know I will always grow. Who knows where I will finally end up as my life continues? Either way, I know where I will go after THIS life, so that for me is peace.
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"I may not have ended up wher I needed to go, but I am where I need to be and will decide where it is I need to go"
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Not even a little bit, but I thank God that's the case. I started in California and ended up in Ecuador, then Atlanta, then Philly, now engaged to an amazing man I met along the way and we are living in Austin. It's been wonderful and unexpected and has required me to relinquish control over and over again of my life and my plans.
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I am . . . the sum total of all previous experiences: Everything I am doing today is merely preparation for the challenge I will face and the goals of tomorrow.
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I so fully agree with this statement. Ones I very much identified with the profession I had, but after i was able to free myself from that identity I had created, and allow life to happen I drifted to the spot where I am now, loving what I do, and being very at ease with the world around me. To give up planning, and to allow the world to unfold is the key.
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from the earliest days, i trusted intuition. intuition trumps everything, even what may seem like solid reasoning at a given time. i knew somewhere along the line that whatever i imagined, it was never going to be that way when i got there...too many variables in life. so intuitions guides me. its worked well i feel.
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I am young, but I have lived long enough to agonize over opportunities that I have opted out of in favor of others. What I have learned from berrating myself over chances that I have lost is that the things that I do not and will never second guess myself about are the things that I did from my heart that were in line with my morals and values or that gave me a more empathetic and inclusive heart. I believe the better you love others the better your life will be. Learning that makes me estatic to be where I am today. I believe that your state of mind determines how happy you will be where ever you go.
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I'm currently in the process of transferring from my college to another location for cost reasons. The college that I am at right now could not be more perfect. Not only that, but it is my second home, I live there more months out of the year than I do at my family home, and almost all of my closest friends are there as well. I will have to leave and move on without them next year, and it breaks my heart to know that it is inevitable. However, I know that my Lord and Savior has a plan for me that I cannot even begin to understand and so from that I am able to take an immense amount of hope and comfort. No, I'm not where I thought I would be or even really where I WANT to be, at this exact point and time. But I do know that it will work out in the end.
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No. Life has changed so much. But with it all I have seen my Creator's hand. And because of that, I love the changes :)
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I am pretty much where I expected myself to be, almost done with uni and living in a country thats not my own. I am unhappy with the way things turned out. Life could have been a much more colorful and interesting playground.
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The plan was to go to college. I never did. I would definitely be further in my career but I wouldn't have met the people and had the experiences that have made me a better person. And I'd rather be a good person and have enough than a bad person and have even more. I'm happy.
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omnia iam fient fieri quae posse negabam... All the things which I denied could happen are happening now.
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omnia iam fient fieri quae posse negabam... All the things which I denied could happen are happening now.
My own life, for me at least, is proof that something Devine helps guide me. Everything I swore I wouldn't be is who I am... And I couldn't be more grateful.
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40 years ago my future husband picked me up hitch hiking to California. I definitely didn't intend to get married to anyone but I'm so glad I ended up with him. It's been a good life, even a great life.
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If you would have told me a few years ago where I would be today, I would have been dumbfounded. I didn't end up where I intended to go but I am SO happy about where I am. It's all about surfing the wave of life and always doing your best to enjoy the ride that you are experiencing. When something happens that bumps you in a new direction, don't look at it as a bad thing. It's all a part of a big amazing personal adventure that nobody gets to experience but you.
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Every plan I have had for my life has been substantially altered by circumstance, and each time, in retrospect, I'm happy with how things turned out, though there are times that I have twinges of "what could have been." I wouldn't be where I am today, with the people I love, if everything went according to plan - time and again.
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I'm closer to where I need to be, but haven't quite yet reached my destination. I am most certainly NOT where I thought I would be even ten years ago.
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I'm closer to where I need to be, but haven't quite yet reached my destination. I am most certainly NOT where I thought I would be even ten years ago.
However, keep in mind that ten years ago, I was in a much worse place than I am now, so things have gone uphill for me, despite the occasional valleys that place themselves between myself and my destination.
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Well my life is not so nice,yet it could be worse. I certainly hope that it does not become worse.
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I always wanted to retire to a house on a mountain overlooking the ocean. I did at 60 and couldn't be happier watching the dawn each day.
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I honestly never thought I'd be where I am today as of a year and a half ago. And I'm doing great. A little shift in your attitude can take you a long way.
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Until we are done we can't really answer that. At the moment I am not where I intended to be but I am here anyway. Happy or sad? That is also one I can't answer until I'm done living. Most of my feelings appear to be in retrospect!!
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Surprise! I lived! At 20 so certain I would never see 25 I loved and was loved and I lived. At 30 while crossing a minefield I got tired of being careful and ran while daring one to detonate. At 40 I walked defiantly down sniper alley and the world paused to watch a madman they called brave. At 50 I have held two grandchildren and have finally decided to live. Surprise!
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No, but that's okay. Although we, ultimately, are in control of our decisions, there is no way to see into the future and watch our choices blossom.
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24 years ago, I prayed to God that he let my infant son live..."Let me have this one, and I will help someone else with their baby someday" was my prayer. He eventually grew, got well, and is now a man. But when he was about 10, we were driving. Seriously, this huge flash, a lightning bolt, so to speak, went off in my head. It was at that moment that I realized I had made a promise to God that I had not paid attention to. That week, at the age of 35, I signed up at my local college to take classes in the medical field. I am now a respiratory therapist in the NICU. Been doing it for 15 years now. It is the perfect job for me. And I never EVER would have thought that I would be doing this. We must always trust that our words are heard and that our hearts are open.
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I have had many places in my life where I wanted to end up. I still have some. But I don't hang onto them quite so desperately as I once did.
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I have had many places in my life where I wanted to end up. I still have some. But I don't hang onto them quite so desperately as I once did.
That's because I realize that there is -- somehow -- a steering mechanism in my life that is more a function of where I need to be than where I want to be. Things happen. Choices and chances and fates and serendipity and synchonicity all come together and weave moments of time and place and yes even purpose . . . in ways I never dreamed nor desired.
But I get there and find . . . it is exactly where I needed to be at that particular moment.
I don't know how I ever truly lived before I saw this process playing out in my life. And in hindsight I see that I wasn't truly living.
I was just surviving.
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Being where I am now, I'm almost 90% sure that there is such a thing as fate. I remember being a child and talking to my dad about exactly what I'm being trained to do now. I even wanted a tattoo in high school that directly reflects where I am now, though I had no plans then to be doing what I'm doing now.
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