Coming to Christ and becoming a Christian
I’m going to mention several.
First: Marrying my husband. Today is our 5th anniversary, so this is a nice post to be able to write!
Second: Going away to college. I grew up in a small midwestern town and lived there all my life. I chose to go to a small private college in Virginia. Living in the south, and on the east coast, with students from all over the country, was broadening and enlightening. My life and my aspirations and my worldview are so different than they would have been if I’d accepted the scholarship to go to the flagship public university in my state.
Third: Deciding my senior year of college, in the middle of my interviews in the corporate banking world, to put on the brakes and NOT look for that kind of job. I didn’t know what I would be doing, but I realized that I did NOT need to have “the perfect ladder-climbing corporate job” right out of college. Thank god. My interviews were going well and I am certain I could’ve gone that direction, but I am so glad I didn’t. I ended up taking a low-paying but interesting job for a few years, and then I went to grad school, and now I am utterly happy in my job in a field I didn’t even know existed when I was doing that senior-year search.
i know this is a bit of a ‘look how great i am thread’ but it was supposed to be an upper from the downer of ‘worst mistake you ever made’ thus balancing it out. But it seems this is far more popular, what a modest lot!
The best thing I ever did was get past my husband’s shyness on our first few dates and realize he wasn’t a dork, just a nice man. We’ve been married 7 years now.