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Turning on a dime
Nise's Notes
by Denise Schoppe
The Marlin Democrat
March 16, 2005
Life changes in the blink of an eye. One minute your going on this straight path with nothing in sight to throw you off that course. The next, an unexpected event comes out of nowhere and knocks you on the ground leaving you confused, lost and unsure what to do.
This type of thing happens to everyone, and it happens somewhere everyday.
I firmly believe two things:
One - I believe that everything happens for a reason.
Coincidences do not exist. Things have a reason for happening, even if we never see what that reason is. If we're lucky, at some point down the road we are able to look back on our life and see a clear path of events to lead us to where we are.
Detours are not detours. Tragedies makes us stronger. People come in and out of our lives. We go in and out of other's lives. And at the end of it all, we become the person we are meant to be.
Two - I believe we're never given more than we can handle.
At times it may seem as though we are handed far too much at one time, and at those times we have the option to sink or swim.
We have to have the bad times to truely appreciate the good, and we also have to have them to test and build our strength.
Just like someone with large muscles works every day with weights and resistence to get that muscle definition, those that are the truly strong in character are the ones that have worked against the resistence of others and even themself.
Getting through tough times takes work. It takes faith, it takes hope and it takes a willingness to accept the support of others. With all of these things, time and determination, life starts back up on its path.
Later, upon looking back on that path, the time may be hardly noticable. Things that seemed so huge and insurmountable at the time, are really just a small speed bump. Maybe the events affected someone else in a greater fashion than you. You may never know.
Then again, this hard time could very well be a key crook in the road that allowed even greater and more important things to happen. It's called life, and no one ever said it was easy.
Nise's Notes
by Denise Schoppe
The Marlin Democrat
March 16, 2005
Life changes in the blink of an eye. One minute your going on this straight path with nothing in sight to throw you off that course. The next, an unexpected event comes out of nowhere and knocks you on the ground leaving you confused, lost and unsure what to do.
This type of thing happens to everyone, and it happens somewhere everyday.
I firmly believe two things:
One - I believe that everything happens for a reason.
Coincidences do not exist. Things have a reason for happening, even if we never see what that reason is. If we're lucky, at some point down the road we are able to look back on our life and see a clear path of events to lead us to where we are.
Detours are not detours. Tragedies makes us stronger. People come in and out of our lives. We go in and out of other's lives. And at the end of it all, we become the person we are meant to be.
Two - I believe we're never given more than we can handle.
At times it may seem as though we are handed far too much at one time, and at those times we have the option to sink or swim.
We have to have the bad times to truely appreciate the good, and we also have to have them to test and build our strength.
Just like someone with large muscles works every day with weights and resistence to get that muscle definition, those that are the truly strong in character are the ones that have worked against the resistence of others and even themself.
Getting through tough times takes work. It takes faith, it takes hope and it takes a willingness to accept the support of others. With all of these things, time and determination, life starts back up on its path.
Later, upon looking back on that path, the time may be hardly noticable. Things that seemed so huge and insurmountable at the time, are really just a small speed bump. Maybe the events affected someone else in a greater fashion than you. You may never know.
Then again, this hard time could very well be a key crook in the road that allowed even greater and more important things to happen. It's called life, and no one ever said it was easy.
