everything happens for a reason
I know you’ve heard this before, but it’s absolutely true. Even if you can’t see it right now, there is a reason for everything, good or bad.
With that being said, you are absolutely exactly where you need to be. Even if you don’t feel like it, you’re in the place where you are for a reason— to learn a lesson, to begin a transition, to meet someone, to earn something, to wait for something out. It may not be clear or obvious right now, but later on, looking back at this moment is when you’ll get your clarity.
I can trace back endless steps of mine where I felt confused, or lost, or simply not in the right place— and now I can identify that they all led me to where I am today, and I can appreciate each and every one of them.
Even going back as far as covid. If a global pandemic hadn’t happened, I wouldn’t have deferred my enrollment in college for an entire year.
If I hadn’t deferred my enrollment, I wouldn’t have chosen to go to Pitt. If I hadn’t gone to Pitt, I wouldn’t have worked at that Starbucks location, and not only learned incredibly valuable work skills and ethic, but met some of my favorite people.
Also had I not gone to Pitt, I would never have studied abroad in Florence, and also met some incredibly amazing friends, or learned about my love for travel and content creation. Had I not studied abroad, I wouldn’t have been applying (unsuccessfully) to traveling sales jobs in Italy.
Had I not been waitlisted for those jobs, I would never have had my “post grad slump” where I was then turned down from every entry level marketing job I applied to on LinkedIn. Had I not been turned down from those jobs, I would never have taken a leap of faith and applied to be a flight attendant. Had I not applied, I wouldn’t be where I am today— exactly where I should be.
Every second of every day that I get to be a flight attendant, I think about how grateful I am to be where I am. I have never felt such a sense of belonging, and sense of accomplishment.
I truly am exactly where I need to be, and I never would have ended up here had I not accepted and trusted every single step of my journey to get there. It didn’t always make sense, I wasn’t always happy about it, in fact most of the time I was complaining to my mom about how lost and behind I felt. But I can now, without a doubt, say that I feel that I’m exactly where I need to be right now. I can also say that I wholeheartedly understand all the steps that I have taken to get here, and am grateful for each and every one of them– good or bad.
If you have ever felt lost, confused, or like you’re not where you’re supposed to be– I promise you, you will, it’s not a matter of if, it’s a matter of when.
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