And God Said "Ha!!!" ...

Back in the days when I was a teenager, I dreamed of becoming a filmmaker. And DJ. And lawyer. And, well, you get the point I'm trying to make here. I wanted to go away to college and live like the kids on A Different World (without Whitley's bougie ass) and I had big plans and even greater desires. Then life called and left a message that said ,ahem," You can't always get what you want...". Yeah. Exactly. I didn't go away to school and gained 40 lbs that first semester after high school graduation; eating  myself further into my depression. Eh. Then I registered for school so I could start the following January and everything began to fall into place. Fast forward a few years to 2002 when 2 months prior to graduation I had a terrible accident where I broke everything from my assh*le to my appetite. The surgical team had to call Humpty Dumpty's homies to come put me back together because I was a shattered mess. Literally. I managed to come out the following year though. Proud of that I must say. However with so much focus on my recovery I didn't take job searching seriously. I'll be the very first to admit that. I worked a small job that I really didn't like but it was cool. I lived at home with my folks, no bills or responsibility, so I was good. Then I decided to get grown and moved in with 'Him'. Put on the Family Matters music folks, because this is where things get tragic. My first 'grown up' relationship, and I had no idea what I was getting myself into. More drama than VH1 and Bravo reality programming schedules COMBINED. Geezus !!! Finally came my little one, and life sent me back to back text messages that told me I needed a job. Any job, because now I had a mouth to feed besides my own. Shit got real, and I had to grow up real quick.  Never mind that I was like 30, but when you've never had to do it before its something out of this world. I again entered a job that I didn't like and began to hate, but I had to do it. Fast forward to 2013 and I lost that job. I got an email from the man upstairs that told me everything happens for a reason. Financially things are rather berserk right now but somehow Im the happiest Ive been in more than a decade. All those aspirations I had when I was a kid and life saw a different path. We make plans to map out what we believe will be an easy road and the heavens above say " Stop! Wait a minute!" I had to realize that while I have a certain amount of control, I don't have the final say. None of us do. That's when I just smile, as I opened a fortune cookie that read "Laughter makes it all a little better". I laughed. And just like that , I felt better....