The Weight of Glory – C. S. Lewis (1980)
It is often heard when something doesn’t happen that it was not meant to be and that there is something better waiting around the corner. Some say it is fate, that only the things you are destined for actually come to fruition, but whilst I do believe in this I also think that you have to make an effort to put yourself in the right place, albeit the right place to be turned down.
However, there are some that no matter what they do lady luck seems to favour them, the ones that walk in and out of jobs as they please, the ones that opportunity seems to assist, the ones that no matter what they get up to the world simply smiles at them and offers something else, which more often than not is better than what they have walked away from.
Who knows where we are all supposed to be, what paths we are meant to tread, or where life will take us. I think the one thing that the years have taught me already is that nothing is certain and even though you may think you have mapped out your life, family, career etc. you always have to be prepared for the unexpected … after all you cannot map out life for those that are around you.