Are We Meant to Meet the People We Meet?

I have been contemplating a lot of things lately. Perhaps because I am going to be thirty-years old in six months. There is still so much I feel like I should accomplish before I hit this milestone and I am no where near close. I can blame a few things on the economy sucking and making it harder than ever to find a well-paying job. I can also blame myself for almost everything else that I am not happy about or haven't accomplish. 

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Anyways, before I get too far off topic, I found this great article from the MindBody Green website and it really grabbed my attention, and made me think about the people in my life. Over the years, I have had a lot of people come and go out of my life, especially after college. I have also had a few people re-enter my life!

Until today, I have never really put much weight on those people coming in and out of my life. I am a firm believer of everything happens for a reason, so for me, I think yes -- we are meant to meet the people we meet. 

Are we destined to meet the people we meet?

Yes

I know we are.

Every person we meet, we are meant to meet. No matter how long they stay in our lives.

Every person has something to teach us. Whether they stay for an hour, a day, or 10 years, they are there for the right amount of time. That amount of time is simply how long it takes you to learn the soul lesson. There are 6 billion people in this world, nothing is an accident.

If the experience seems negative, and this certain person really irritates you, or you feel like you cannot connect to someone, that experience presents itself in your journey to give you an opportunity to learn patience, understanding, or perhaps empathy. It gives you an opportunity to see yourself even in someone your ego categorizes as different, less than, or not good.

The people we meet who seem special, with whom we connect instantaneously… they enter into our journey to show us we are on the right path. To show that we are creating a path for ourselves that is true to our being, to our soul, to our creativity… and connecting to people at higher levels proves this.

To read the rest of the article, you can jump over the MindBodyGreen website, here!

What do you think... are we meant to meet the people we meet?

I Wish...

This "super yacht" is friggin huge (280-feet long) and I wish I had one! 

Inspire Me: Summer Love.

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"Summer Love"

Summer is definitely my favorite season and I can't wait for the weather to warm up so that I can get outside an enjoy it!

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The Quarter-Life Crisis.

This past weekend we had my boyfriend's family in town for his grandfather's 90th birthday. It was a fun weekend full of surprises, and a few ups and downs. All in all, it was a great weekend but there were a few events that really made me think about things in my life -- things that I am happy or not happy with, and things that I would like to change in the near future. Rome wasn't built in a day and I know that it won't happen over night; many of the changes that I want will have to happen over a period of time before I am at a point in my life that I would like to be. 

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The title of this post and the below speel is about the quarter-life crisis we all face and relate to; even though I will be 30 years in December, sometimes a lot of the time, I feel like I should be 24 instead of 29 because I still very much relate to the first few paragraphs of what is written below.  

It is when you stop going along with the crowd and start realizing that there are a lot of things about yourself that you didn't know and may or may not like. You start feeling insecure and wonder where you will be in a year or two, but then get scared because you barely know where you are now.

You start realizing that people are selfish and that, maybe, those friends that you thought you were so close to aren't exactly the greatest people you have ever met and the people you have lost touch with are some of the most important ones. What you do not realize is that they are realizing that too and are not really cold or catty or mean or insincere, but that they are as confused as you.

You look at your job. It is not even close to what you thought you would be doing or maybe you are looking for one and realizing that you are going to have to start at the bottom and are scared. You miss the comforts of college, of groups, of socializing with the same people on a constant basis. But then you realize that maybe they weren't so great after all.

You are beginning to understand yourself and what you want and do not want. Your opinions have gotten stronger. You see what others are doing and find yourself judging a bit more than usual because suddenly you realize that you have certain boundaries in your life and add things to your list of what is acceptable and what is not. You are insecure and then secure. You laugh and cry with the greatest force of your life. You feel alone and scared and confused. Suddenly change is the enemy and you try and cling on to the past with dear life but soon realize that the past is drifting further and further away and there is nothing to do but stay where you are or move forward.

You get your heart broken and wonder how someone you loved could do such damage to you or you lay in bed and wonder why you can't meet anyone decent enough to get to know better. You love someone but maybe love someone else too and cannot figure out why you are doing this because you are not a bad person.

One night stands and random hook ups start to look cheap and getting wasted and acting like an idiot starts to look pathetic. You go through the same emotions and questions over and over and talk with your friends about the same topics because you cannot seem to make a decision.

You worry about loans and money and the future and making a life for yourself and while wining the race would be great, right now you'd just like to be a contender!

What you may not realize is that everyone reading this relates to it. We are in our best of times and our worst of times, trying as hard as we can to figure this whole thing out.

 -- Unknown