Timing is Everything

I am often reminded that in life, timing is everything. You can have the perfect opportunity fall into your lap, but if you’re not ready and prepared, or at least receptive to new things happening to you, then chances are, you will miss out.

I always think back to the way *A* and I met; that random winter day on the front steps of our residence dorm. If I hadn’t taken that exact Greyhound bus from home to get back to school; if *A* hadn’t of left the library at that exact same time; if I didn’t have as many bags of luggage and didn’t need help carrying them, then my life would look vastly different.

I was reminded recently when a mutual friend of *A*’s and mine, got the opportunity of a lifetime to continue to pursue his football career in the CFL, all because of timing and chances. We are beyond thrilled for him and I am sure he thanks his lucky stars that he got the chance of a lifetime... and all because of timing and the being in the right place at the right time. 

Take this other example—I needed a new place to move into in fourth year and randomly searched on Kijiji of all places, for a house of girls looking for one extra girl. Turns out, the house I moved into had three amazing girls who are now great friends of mine.. one of whom I still live with three years later! What are the odds that of all the people in the world, I would move into a house that had ladies that I would get along with so well, and share so many things in common with!

Really, everything in life is based on timing. The people you meet, the relationships you develop, how/when you meet your soul mate, when the next job opportunity will come a knockin'.... truly everything in life is about timing.

What I’ve learned in the last couple of years is that you have to at least be receptive and open for things to happen because chances are, the timing will be right, and something amazing could come your way. I thank my lucky stars everyday that, that winter day in front of Johnson Hall steps, that the universe aligned,  timing was right, and I was open to meeting the man of my dreams because I found him that random day without even realizing it at the time.

Here is to timing! And to being open to what the great universe has coming your way—on any given day; at any given moment.