Happy to Have Taken That One for You

If you believe that everything happens for a reason, then you could conceivably drive yourself nutty trying to divine all the reasons.  I don’t try too hard.  It can give you a headache.

But sometimes, I can’t help but wonder “why.”  Like…if you did everything you needed to do in order to…say…catch a plane on time.  But a security watch list and whole bunch of other people trying to catch a whole bunch of other flights keep you from getting on the plane.  Then, the next flight out gets delayed an hour.  Then, you get on that flight, and that flight is delayed at the gate another 30 minutes or so.  Finally, you’re up in the air and on your way.  

The first flight made it safely.  Nothing exploded in the sky.  No crashes.  The flight you’re on makes it safely.  You find your suitcase right away.  There were no alien invasions to foil.  Nothing overt to signal why you went through everything you did.  But…

The Universe is far more subtle than we think.  99 out of 100 times, we have no clue what’s going on or why things are actually transpiring they way that they do.  That’s OK.  We don’t need to know all the time.  I think there are things that we should simply accept and with which we should just roll.  Rolling along…

But…I’m human.  I need a little order in my life.  So maybe I imagine a person who was having a horrible day in the seat that should have been mine.  Or maybe I imagine a soldier coming home on leave who was able to get home in time for his mother’s surprise 60th birthday party sitting in that seat that should have been mine.  Or maybe someone was having a great day and making that flight made their life even greater.  I just know SOMEONE benefited immensely from what I went through today.  So, whoever you are, I’m happy to have taken that one for you.

Hypothetically speaking.