Write about the negative side of something positive that happened in your life.
Hmm, that's an interesting twist.
I could do both, both the positive of a negative and a negative of the positive.
Except, I can't really think of the negative of something positive at the moment. Perhaps I could do it later, but I initially misread this statement and started thinking about all the good things that have happened as the result of something seemingly negative....
Even though my dad had looked at my tires and they looked thin, he let me drive to Athens and back before we replaced them. The result? My tire exploded. I was in the middle of nowhere on 316. Almost immediately, someone stopped on the side of the road to help me. The result of that meeting? The next person I fell in love with and one of my close friends today. That flat tire was life-changing for me in the best possible way.
The New Media certificate program was going to potentially lose its funding and it was because I took several New Media Classes (including intro to new media and website design) that I had to take an extra semester of classes to graduate with my two degrees. The result of staying that seemed awful at the time? Being VP of the sorority, taking the review class, and being able to copy edit at the Red & Black. The ultimate result? The job I have now. If I had graduated on time, I would likely have been working my first year in my entry-level post-college job and not job searching at all in January of 2006. My three-year anniversary is at the end of March. I am so grateful for having a job I love and a company that I love to work for (and that's not me brown-nosing either, it's true).
Philip was getting married an entire year earlier than he said he would and I had to pay for a trip to Alaska. I thought it would be diffficult but it turned into such a great trip. I got to be better friends with Lyndsey and Jordan and have a little mini college reunion with Phil and Rob (and Philip of course). My stimulus check financed a great deal of the trip. That's right, I helped stimulate the airline industry, baby. And I'm about to do it again: Boston on Thursday and Washington, D.C. in March.
Hey, I'm going to Boston on Thursday! Laura, here I come!
(random, I know)
3 comments:
It's so interesting how the strange roads we end up taking (that we had not really planned on) can in fact lead us somewhere better.
:)
Hey, it wasn't a WHOLE year early... just most of one. And see what an awesome time you had!
Yes Sparky, it was an amazing trip and now that I know how wonderful Alaska is, it's an extra incentive to come visit you =) I wish I could have seen you more while I was there but, well, I mean, I had to let you get married and all of that....
I look forward to coming back and visiting you and Jamie and actually getting to talk to her =)
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