Timing is Everything

As I mentioned the other day, I am pathetically addicted to Netflix lately. I have watched so many movies in the past few weeks it is sad. I have watched everything from Superbad to Mad Money to Ted Bundy (which was horrible btw). Something about being able to watch anything I want, anytime I want to watch it is insanely appealing.

One of the movies I have watched over the past few days is Definitely, Maybe. I must admit that the main reason I watched it was so that I could drool over Ryan Reynolds but it turned out to be a pretty good movie overall. Will (Reynolds) is a dad telling is daughter the story of how he met her mother- with a twist. He tells her of three women and she has to guess which one is her mother. He even changes the names of some of the people in the story to throw his daughter for a loop.

One of the women, April, makes a comment at one point in the movie about soul mates. She doesn’t believe in them. She says something to the effect of believing that the timing is more key in finding the right person than anything. If the timing is right, then the person you find or are with becomes the right person.

At first I thought of her logic as twisted. Then I thought about it more…

There was this guy that I met my first semester in college, Zach. I had a huge crush on him and he even asked me out but the timing was all sorts of wrong. I had a boyfriend (which was dumb because I knew it wasn’t gonna work) and he was in a major party stage of his life. I have since ditched the boyfriend and Zach has since been deployed to Iraq. We keep in touch and I am going to see him when he comes home in March.

I think about him often. I think about how we both liked each other but just couldn’t seem to get our shit together. So what if being “meant to be” has nothing to do with it and, in one of our future meetings, the timing is finally right? I don’t dwell on it, I just think about it at times.

I can’t say that I believe in fate or that everyone has a soul mate but I do believe that everything happens exactly as it is supposed to and exactly when it is supposed to.

Let’s take college for example. I went to a university straight out of high school. I lasted three semesters before I was homesick. My grades were mediocre, which is usually less than acceptable to me. I sat out a semester and tried again in the fall of 2004 at a private college. It was the worst four months and I actually pulled a .75 GPA for the semester. Now that takes some sort of talent. I once again decided to take time off.

I finally decided it was time to go back to school in the spring of 2008. I was pulling A’s in all of my classes until my car got broken into and someone stole all of my school stuff. They took the whole damn bag. The bag held my books, my notes, my assignments, and even my all damn pencils. At the time I couldn’t afford to replace everything and my advisor told me that, for my GPA’s sake, I should drop my classes and try again the next semester.

I re-enrolled this past Fall and, finally, successfully completed a semester. I even got A’s. I am currently enrolled in 18 credit hours and so far still have A’s.

It didn’t take me so long to get on track because college wasn’t meant for me or because I’m not smart enough, it took so long because the timing wasn’t right. I had some growing up to do and now I am ready to take school head on. I am more determined to graduate- and graduate with a high GPA- than I ever have been before. I would much rather have gotten a late start then just half-assed it the first time around.

It just goes to show ya, everything in life from love to education is about timing.

Thoughts?

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4 Responses to “Timing is Everything”

Tee aka The Diva's Thoughts January 30th, 2009, 3:37 pm

There is defintely something to be said for timing. I totally agree with that.

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Seductress January 30th, 2009, 7:06 pm

I’m a firm believer in timing. What comes into our life is exactly the ‘right’ thing at that time. Good or bad, it’s there to teach us something if we’re willing to learn or give us an opportunity to use/share our gifts….

The Seductress

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SINgleGIRL January 30th, 2009, 8:38 pm

That makes four of us. I believe that timing is just about everything when it comes to relationships.

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Honey February 9th, 2009, 7:52 pm

Do you think it’s possible, sometimes, to create your own timing?

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