Believe in fate...at least a little bit

I have for sure not always been someone to believe in fate or a higher power or that everything is meant to be. Honestly for a long time I thought all that crap was a bunch of well...crap. But here's the thing, as I get older (I know I'm only 20, but you know that's pretty damn older considering) I find myself believing more and more that there has to be some kind of bigger meaning to whatever it is we are trying to do here in our lives and in some way everything happens for a reason. Essentially, yes I think in some ways we do have to believe that there is such a thing as fate.

I went to the library yesterday. Not the library I usually go to, but a much bigger one about 15 minutes away from my house, not that the particular distance matters in this story, but rather the important part is that it is not a place I usually go. In fact, when I was checking out my books, the librarian told me that my card hadn't been used there since 2014. (I don't want this to come across as I haven't been to a library since 2014, I just don't usually go to this one. I promise I read, ok?).

Anyways, just the day before I had been listening to a podcast called: How to Human (sometimes you need a little help with that, am I right?) and on that podcast was an author names Gretchen Rubin. She was talking about her new book: "The Four Tendencies". In it, she essentially divided people into different categories based on their tendencies. I was mostly drawn to her because she also discussed a book she had previously written called "The Happiness Project". I have recently been working on that whole "happiness thing" so she intrigued me.

So I went to this library I don't usually go to and I felt awkward because I hadn't been there in forever and I didn't know where the tables were for studying so I decided to make a lap before I decided to sit. Just trying to avoid a compromising situation such as realizing two seconds after you've sat down that you're at the time out table in the kids section. That hasn't happened to me yet, but if you knew my luck, you would believe that it had.

Basically I was doing my lap and found myself in the new nonfiction book section and there it was: "The Four Tendencies". It just seemed too perfect. I had listened to this podcast about an author doing what she loved. She was so inspiring. She made me want to push forward to write and there it was. I grabbed it and headed back to my table.

A couple hours after I was heading back from my third bathroom journey from the other side of the library. I had had way to much coffee and each time I had to venture to the depths of the lobby to the restroom I felt like I had gone on a safari speed-walking through the stacks. Ok, not the point, but I was on my way back and I saw the writing section and right there was "Writer's Market 2017". I picked it up. It was all about getting published and how to make a career out of you're writing. There it was. Gretchen had said in the podcast that when she had decided to start her journey as a writer she had just gotten a book on writing and how to get published herself and just went for it. So I took it. I checked out my books and hour or so later and left.

I opened that book again today and found the receipt had just happened to be stuck in a section titled: "Earn a Full-Time Income from Blogging". I mean COME ON.

And now I will say there will be people out there who think I'm ridiculous and maybe I am, but I would rather be ridiculously than painfully boring. I do truly believe you attract what you want whether or not you are actively trying to attract it or not. The differentiation between types of people comes from whether or not you are willing to accept that what you want is indeed what you want.

I have come to believe in fate. Not simply because I found a book I had on my mind the day prior. There's a lot of magic in this world, you've just got to let it in.