The road not taken

Happywanderer

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Were you ever driving and had a choice on which why to go, and something told you to go one way and not the other? Did you ever wonder why? Like, if you had gone the other way would something bad have happened?

I know, very existential of me. For some reason I'm in that kind of mood.
 
Not driving. I get lost all the time, so I spent about 40% of time of roads I'm technically not supposed to be on and nothing great happens to me. :goodvibes

However, when I was in college, I had a ritual. Every morning, at the same time, I walked from my brownstone dorm, across Bay State Road and across Commonwealth Avenue. I crossed at the same light every day. I'd go to the Campus Conveneince and get a newspaper and the bagel shop for a wheat bagel.

One day, I woke up, something happened (can't remember what), but it put me in a really bad mood. I crossed Bay State Road and got to Commonwealth Avenue. I stood at the light and decided, just before it turned to give me a walk sign, that I was too angry to eat a bagel. So, I turned and walked down the same side of the street to go to a newspaper machine. I got my newspaper and, just as I started walking away from the machine, I heard a car squeeling. A car, driven by someone who we later found out fell asleep, hopped the curb and landed on the sidewalk. It landed right where the crosswalk is....right where I would have landed had I decided to cross the street in my usual ritual.

So, whatever put me in a bad mood that day, I'm SO HAPPY it happened.
 
See, you had a validation of your choice. But, if you not being somewhere at a certain moment caused something not to happen--well, could I be anymore confusing?

Nevertheless, when I get that feeling I alway heed it. Hasn't steered me wrong yet.
 
Happywanderer, fear not, I know exactly what you are talking about! Sometimes I just get a vibe to go a different way and I do, and I don't find out that anything might have happened. Sometimes it's just things like there was a lot of traffic the other way and I managed to avoid it by doing something different.
 

Thanks WeirdTigger27, glad to know someone else understands. Kind of what this board is about, don't cha think?
 


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