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Do you ever have those moments, where you step out of body for a minute and look at yourself from an outside perspective and wonder... "How did I get here?"
I had that distinct experience 2 times in the past few days. Both while driving in my car, sitting next to two of my best friends here. The thought passed through my mind of what had to happen in our lives to bring us together to this point in time. There are so many decisions that could have gone differently and yet somehow we both made the decisions we did and ended up here together.

Two separate life streams that ended up colliding here in Hershey, PA of all places. Not only that, but if you had asked me last year if I would be close to some of the people I am close with now - I would have told you that you were crazy. Yet I have learned some valuable lessons, laughed, and cried with these special people. I guess that's part of what makes life so beautiful and scary at the same time - you never know where you are going to end up.

I'm not suggesting that all of our fates are predetermined and that we have no say in what happens in our lives. I certainly believe that we do, but there is a level of fate or density that I think is present in our lives. We are presented with certain opportunities or introduced to certain people and it's our job and free will to make of it what we will.