In A Split Second

In a split second your whole world can be different. For better or for worse. Today, I began the day as every other day. Then a phone call came. This phone call provided an opportunity that would change my life and it would never be the same again. I called all of my friends and asked for prayers that we would make the right decision. Tonight, one of them said, if all of this falls through, I am so sorry. Please don't be upset. He was afraid if it fell through we would blame him for putting us through the hurt. I reminded him that if you never take chances, life isn't worth living.

If you think about it, all of life is nothing but chances. Don't we really take a chance on everyone who enters our lives? Our friends. Our relationships. Our doctors. Even our pets. Life would be so dull without all the great people that go in and out of it. I've tried to think back on people that I have been close to. I do truly believe they were here for a reason and fulfilled their purpose and left.

So, who decides our chances that we are taking are stupid? Who decides we have gone too far? And does a true friend let you make these mistakes or stop you? Or ultimately, do they go through it with you?

At the end of every bumpy road, we are changed in some way. Sometimes, we are much stronger and our hearts are changed. Sometimes, they make us bitter and spend much of the rest of our lives mad at the world. And sometimes, they make us someone new and our lives are never the same. So I guess all of those chances we take, are leading us to who we become and down the bumpy road of life.

It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. It is the
dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance. It is the one that won't be taken who cannot seem to give. And the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.
-Bette Midler