Fate

We all know the story, right? The unpopular girl falls for the popular guy who later realizes that he doesn't care about being popular, but just about being with her. Or two people who hate each other are forced to work together and end up falling in love. Or, probably the most unrealistic one, the girl is swept off her feet by some prince charming and they live happily ever after. However, it doesn't seem that this happens much in real life, does it? What's the purpose of telling a story that could never really happen? And that is the beauty of it, the best stories are the ones that nobody believes could happen, but everyone wishes would happen. And there in lies the problem.

Today's society has grown to become to accepting. We all say that we wish something grand would happen to us, yet seem to settle for the first thing that comes along. And to me that is just a shame. I myself still believe that there is still a thing called fate. A moment where two people see each other and feel as if they have known each other for their whole lives, and yet they just met. And even though we see something like that happen in almost ever other movie nowadays, why do I feel like I'm the only one who still thinks it to be true.

I was watching a show just the other day and I believe one of the characters shared the same experience that I am. And yes I know it was on TV but just bare with me. So he meets these two girls and feels like both would be great girlfriends and so he spends the majority of the show trying to choose which one he wants to go on a second date with. But, at the end of the episode, he realizes that he wasn't to have to choose between two girls who both seem alright. He feels that he shouldn't be debating between two, but rather be so crazy about one that it isn't even a choice. And I agree with him completely. A lot of people today just get into relationships just to say that they are in one, yet don't truly feel the way you should whenever you are with someone. I want to be able to meet someone and want nothing more than for them to say they feel the same way about me as I do about them. Call me a dreamer, but that's how a feel.

And so now for the hard part, how do you do this in a world where almost no one else feels this way? And that's when I remember a song I heard in my childhood and didn't quite understand it until now. It says that somewhere out there, someone is saying a prayer, that we will find one another, in that big somewhere out there. I don't know if I've already met the one God has chosen for me to be with, or if I have yet to meet her, or even if there is someone out there crazy enough to love me. But what I do know is that I will never stop believing that fate is real, and that whenever that moment comes I will be ready. I've waited 18 years, what's 10, 20, or 30 more whenever I have great family and friends around me. I just pray every time I remember that whoever or whenever she is, that she is doing okay and that she just might believe I'm somewhere out there as well. And for that, I keep on smiling.