I saw a movie last night where a disillusioned girl asks her mother the reason she fell for and married the girl’s promiscuous father – even though they were already divorced at that time. The mother answered, “You know when you’re in a restaurant and you order something that looks really good off the menu and when it comes to the table, you realize you ordered badly? I ordered badly." Still appalled, the daughter replied with why’s, how could you and what were you thinking to order that? She topped it off with, “I won’t make that mistake!" Then the mother simply stated, “No, you will make the other one." Much of the movie was about the daughter trying to figure out what that other mistake was and then she had an epiphany.
I had an epiphany.
I work with intellectually inspiring
and very diverse people who challenge me every single day. And they know how to
work hard. They make me better and stronger. They test my resolve and my
beliefs – after all if I believe something there must be some foundation from
which I built it from, along with concrete evidence or support. There is no
aimless idea or unsubstantiated preference. Who I am and what I am is built
upon something definitive and they expose those scaffolds constructing me and
reveal the essence of what makes me…me.
The friends I have made here are as
wild as the wild flowers. They bloom in random and unpredictable spots and
their fragrance and beauty are life-giving. And - wow - do they know how to
have fun…
The room I rent, the bathrooms,
playing real-life Frogger every time I cross the road, the food, the people, the
parking, the walking, my work, my friends, the smells, the pollution…
So what was the epiphany? The
mistake I could have made?
Not ordering at all.
I wouldn’t trade this time for all
the tea in China! It has been an amazing experience thus far and I am only in
week 6. I can’t imagine my life right now if I had not ordered at all…
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