Our Path.....

I believe that in my life I have been given a path that has brought me to where I am today. I was thinking about this the other day as I can remember a big life changing moment in my life. It changed everything for me and I believe is how I got to this point in my life today.

I go back to being in Junior High 8th grade to be exact. I loved music at this age, my favorite class was choir. I love to sing. At that time I believe I was pretty good because in a couple of concerts I had a few solos of my own. Clearly your music teacher has to believe you have some talent if you are selected for a solo part. Now fast forward to the end of Junior High where every student who wanted to be part of the High school choir had to try out.

My love of singing of course led me to try out because I wanted to be in the choir. However, this was not my path to take. I did not make it into the choir as my tryout did not go very well. I am a very nervous person and I was very nervous at the tryout and I did not do well because I could not get past my nerves. My music teacher was shocked and very disappointed that I did not get selected, she even told me so. Giving me the advice to join the girls choir and prove myself to the teacher so that I would be part of the choir in 10th grade.

I had the option to be part of the girls glee choir in high school but I did elected not to be part of this due to trouble with some other girls who were also in the girls glee choir.

So because of that, my singing came to an end in the 8th grade. Who is to say I would not have done a lot more with music had I made it into the choir but instead I walked away from it all.

Because I walked away I became involved in other activities that lead to an entire new group of friends, that lead to meeting my husband, and the rest is history.

Had I not been part of those other activities (if I did music I would not have been) I would have never made those new friends, I would never have met my husband and so on.

So yes, I do believe we have life changing moments. Sometimes I think they are very obvious and other times not so much. Way back when, I did not see that moment of not making the choir as a life changing moment. Today, I would say this moment has most certainly brought me to where I am today.

Have you had a life changing moment?