My girlfriend is leaving for a year-long contract at a theater in New Jersey to do company management work. Last night we had time to just lounge around, and I decided that having extended time together was a good enough reason to give her the going away gift I decided to buy her. We were at the mall and she smelled this new Marc Jacobs Lola perfume on display. She loved it, took the card sample and we walked away. I knew she didn’t expect me to buy it for her, but there was no way I was not going to buy it for her.
It’s already hard to really find time to see each other and, with her being 4 hours away and only having Mondays off, it’ll be even harder. Go figure that right now is when I get an interview for a job to work abroad for 18 months. As busy as Kristiana is going to be, this opportunity could not come at a better time. Both of us are developing and furthering our careers. 18 months working in South Africa doing marketing and recruiting is not only going to cement a solid foundation for my career, but expose me to so many aspects of culture and life that I have been waiting to experience. Not only that, but most importantly, I would be in a role that not only fully allows me to give back, but requires it.
With the life I have lived, been blessed to live and fought to live, you really start believing in fate and the way pieces start to fit together. So many events in my life have not worked out the way I initially envisioned, but the lessons learned and skills acquired in that journey has led me to where I’m meant to be. As hard as I have been pursuing my endeavors, this opportunity just fits and the more I hear about it, the more I really want it.
My disability made me miss out on a lot of opportunities. Overcoming my disability took time, but doing so has allowed me to regain so many of those missed opportunities. Now that I have overcome my limitations to a point that they are negligible, I refuse to let any opportunity pass me by, especially one that is as all-around rewarding as this 18 month position in South Africa is going to be. Some things are coincidence and others are beyond that. Kristiana is going to progress her career and move from theater to theater. At the time she is leaving Maryland, I have the opportunity to travel as well for roughly the same amount of time she will be away for two contracts.
The timing is there. The opportunity is there. I’ve always believed in Heaven and fate. Surviving my surgery cemented that in multiple ways. Maybe this is just another act from that. With the alternate routes my life has gone on and the way everything is just magically aligning now, there’s really no other explanation. So I’ll just smile, see what happens and have faith that fate is making everything happen the way it is, apparently and truly, supposed to be.
More to come later this week!
