Choices

So I have been thinking lately about how we get to where we are in life. I can pinpoint just a couple of choices that really changed the course of where my life was going. I had not thought too much about in a couple of weeks, but then I watched Nights in Rodanthe. There is a place in the movie where the choices the woman has made are brought to the for front. Could she have married someone different, not given up what she wanted to do with her life, there were several. The interesting thing about me and this movie is, I found myself hoping that she would choose her family over an almost complete stranger that she thought she could have a life with. Which is the exact opposite response that I had when I watch Bridges of Madison County, where every time I hope she gets out of the truck to be with the man she only knew briefly. So then I wonder why my responses to the movies are so different. I believe that we control the path we take in this life. I could have taken a different route, it may have been easier, but I am happier with the one I chose. I love my husband and my children dearly. As well as the friends I have made, which had I made another choice, I would not have the friends I have now. The few people I trust enough to call friends are amazing and I would not trade them for the world. So my challenge to any of you who read this is, think back and pinpoint how you got to where you are!