I wonder

Have you ever wondered why things just happen to occur when you dont want them? When during a wonderful, perfectly blue, mid-summers day with the soft warm breeze plays around your face, when there ain't a care in the world that could ruin such a good day, when problems fly away with the gentle wind... then it happens, a pile of bird shit just happens to fall from that wonderful clear blue sky like a cruise missle laser-tagged onto your forehead. SPLAAAAAAAATTTTTT! Bullseye! Bird: "I got one. Ha! Ha! Ha!". Now you go home wipping all that dung off of your face and and suddenly transform from a mild-mannered Dr. Jeckel to a loud-mouth, curse-throwing Mr. Hyde. What happened to that wonderful, perfectly blue, mid-summers day? It simply got flushed.

Everything happens for a certain reason, well almost everything. Choices lead to decisions. Decisions lead to actions. Actions lead to results. Results lead to questions. Questions lead to more choices and so on and so on. Logic can simplify our lives to the point that what we are today to the end result of a constant play of cause and effect. You are this because you did this not because you did that or because of some divine intervention pushed you to take that road to who you are. You are the end result of years of saying "yes" to what should have been answered "no" and when "maybe" would have been a more straight answer.

"Fortune can bring you a fleeting windfall or a momentary setback. The way you choose to live, though, is what brings true, lasting success."