You Never Know....
How often do you let people just pass through your life without much notice? Shared time can be anything from a moment, to a few hours or days; like the lady that smiled at you in the store or the man you met at the seminar. The investments we make in these unexpected meetings are often small. It’s common to assume that unexpected meetings will have little or no impact on the sequence of our lives’ events. So why bother? But what if these meetings could change your life? What if an encounter could change your life? If you embraced this idea, would you choose to live differently or greet the people you bump into in a different way?
Our lives unfold as a chain of small episodes. They might seem meaningless at the time, but they can change the direction of your next step and the one after that. At first this might not seem important. It just looks like you made a choice or move that was slightly off in a new direction. But as the weeks, months and years pass you move further down the path you create. It’s like a golf ball; if you hit it just a little off, it will end up far from the hole. The longer the shot, the further away from the hole the ball could land. tj
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