We all experience certain times when things don’t go as we expect. I would like to share one of my experiences in my younger days.
When I was about graduate from the high school, I wanted to become an attorney, so I decided to go to a university where their specialty was in laws. In Japan, in order to enroll a university, we have to take an entrance exam. And, passing an entrance exam is more difficult than graduating from the university.
I took four entrance exams for the universities of laws. I studied very hard to pass the exams. I thought I did pretty well on these exams, but for some reasons, I failed all of them.
At that time, my high school teacher strongly recommended me to take one university to study English linguistics. It was simply because I always had the highest grade in English in the high school. I did not desire to study English in a university at that time, but I took his advice anyway.
I still clearly remember about the exam day for the University of English major. First, I overslept. Then, I accidently missed taking off at the right train station, ended up to walk extra 20 minutes back to the exam center. When I entered the exam center, I was extremely tired and wanted to go back home as soon as possible. I quickly jotted down my answers in the exam papers and submitted without re-checking. Then again, for some reasons, I passed the last university for English major.
Those days I was still young so that I considered this as a curse. Anyways, I graduated the university and gained my bachelor’s degree in English linguistics.
Many years have passed since then. Now I know this event happened as a blessing, but not as a curse. I was provided the opportunity to study English linguistics, and the knowledge of English linguistics is now beneficial for me to live in America. Now I know clearly the reason why I failed the other exams to become an attorney. I failed the exams because I was not supposed to be an attorney in this life.
So, when things don’t go as we expect, let’s take a deep breath, and relax. We just don’t know at that moment what is the reason why things don’t go as we expect. Eventually it might show another opportunity for us to take, and the new path might turn out a blessing in the future.
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