Has there been a time in your life when not getting the thing you wanted was the best thing for you?

Question

There were people who were unable to get passage on the Titanic. I know that if I had married the woman I thought I couldn't live without, we both would have been stuck with someone we couldn't live with.

Answer 1

This might sound crazy however Just before the last war started I was in the Army stationed at Fort Stewart, Georgia. My wife has epilepsy and needed to be sent back home to Iowa, before we got shipped off to go to war. I wanted out so badly, or at least stay at Fort Stewart like some got to do. I wanted to stay with my wife real badly that i would have done just about anything to do so. However I was refused and went to war.

Yes, it was really bad over there; however I wouldn't trade a single day that I was over there for anything. See besides the fact that I became closer with some of my fellow soldiers/friends then my own brother(me and my brother are very close, however being in the situations we were in over there we became closer then 90% of non soldiers could even fathom (think about it we trusted each others with our lives literally); besides the fact that I meant more stars up close and personal and being at a concert that was probably close to the level of Woodstock; besides gaining a better appriciation for what I had here at home; I got to know myself very well. In other words think about getting yourself away from everything and I mean everything for 8 months and you will really get to know yourself.

So even though it was very hard over there (worse then anything anybody who has never been to war can fathom), It truelly made me a better man and made me who I am today. So yes when I think of my before and after I am greatfull for the experience.

Answer 2

you know this has happened many times. once when i was younger my step mother was breathing down my neck not to go out wit a couple of my friends. they were going to a party. i was not allowed to dress revealing in any way but because these girls dressed revealing she would not let me go. turns out that night they were raped. my good friend as well wanted to go out with a guy and her parents would not allow it. instead he chose to go out with her rival and he had aids. enough said on that subject. you are so right when thinking in this light. it is almost as if everything happens for a reason.

Answer 3

I am sure too that if I had married my first love I would have ended up miserable. I am thankful that I have not gotten what I wanted at that time.