One of my closest friends has always said that “everything happens for a reason.” Over the last few years, I have come to find this statement true. Every little detail in life has happened because it was supposed to. I have thought about this in my own life and how certain things wouldn’t have happened if another thing didn’t. Here are a couple of examples:

My parents met at a restaurant that my father had been working at. If my mother and her friends decided to eat at another restaurant then they would never have had met. Also what if my dad wasn’t working the night that they went in to eat. Would they have even met? What if she had met someone else in that time? If my parents hadn’t met in the time that they did and if my aunt and uncle didn’t meet at the time that they did, then my cousin and I wouldn’t have been as close. They met at the time that they did, making us be born at the perfect time, and since we are so close in age we became close friends. So if my cousin was born two years before me, then we might not has been best friends like we are now.

Another example is when my school closed down when I was in fourth grade. It was such a sad time for me and all of my friends would be attending a different school. Then something positive came out of it, I met Emily B. If my school never closed down, then I wouldn't have met such an amazing friend. Someone so important to me wouldn't be in my life today.

The first friend I met at my high school is the friend that always says this quote. The way we met is the best example and we use this story in many papers that it applies to. On the first day of school, we happened to walk in the exact same door while there are about six other ones either one of us could have walked into. We were also dropped off at the exact same time. What if I was five minutes late or what if she was five minutes early? The way we knew each other, was because of a person we had in common. If I never went to camp over the summer, then I wouldn't have had met Angie, who was Emily D's best friend. Then when I met Emily D., she wouldn't have known who I was and probably wouldn't have introduced herself. Emily and I also had many other friends in common. So, to make this more complicated, if my school hadn't closed down in the fourth grade, then my friends wouldn't have gone to Emily D's school. If they hadn't gone there, then Emily wouldn't have met them and known them. Once I met Emily D, we were able to become much closer friends because we knew mostly the same people.

It is just incredible how one second can change everything. We complain about running late but we don't know what could have happened if we did leave 5 minutes before. Now that I have actually thought about this quote, I see how every little thing affects other things. So the next time something bad happens I'll just think that this has to happen for something else to occur. Either good or bad, everything happens for a reason.