"Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever." That's a quote by Keri Russell. Keri is an actress that got her start on the Mickey Mouse Club. It seems a lot of actors and actresses got their start on that show. That is about all I can tell you about her though. I haven't watched TV in about a decade now.
I like this quote, though it seems very obvious to me. We can all think of times in our lives where a small decision may have changed our destiny. For me, grabbing my wife's hand that night on the beach was a small decision that changed everything in my life. From that one little decision, sprang a number of large changes. To start, I stopped drinking soon after. Two weeks into our relationship my wife told me she was an alcoholic and asked me to help her stop drinking. I gave up the booze that day, and spent the next eleven years trying to help her to stop drinking as well. To be honest, I don't think I would have stopped drinking on my own, if she hadn't asked me for help. You see, I was an alcoholic as well. I was functional, but still drinking way too much to be considered healthy. A second change that came from that initial small decision to grab her hand was that Sharon and I ended up getting married and having two children. Regardless of anything else, that decision was crucial. Imagine that instead of grabbing Sharon's hand that night, I instead opted for the easy path. I already had a feeling that the other girl walking on the beach with us liked me. In fact, Sharon later mentioned to me that she knew that to be the case. Think about it. If I did not grab Sharon's hand, I may have ended up dating that other girl... or no one! If I didn't grab Sharon's hand, I may have lost any opportunity to be with her. If I then went on to meet someone else eventually, I may still have had daughters, but they would not have been Maddie and Ashleigh. Oddly enough, I guess you can say that Maddie and Ashleigh's lives hung in the balance on whether or not I grabbed Sharon's hand. Now, to make this post even weirder, let's think about the path not taken. How is my life different than it may have been due to the decisions I didn't make... or the times when I made the wrong decisions? Would I be in New Hampshire? Would I have two daughters? Would I even be alive? Only God can answer that question. So yes, the quote was obvious, but so true. Not every small decision is going to be life changing. YOU WILL GET AWAY WITH SOME OF THEM! But any of them can. One last example. Did you know that one of the last CEO's of Mc Donald's had actually gotten his first job at Mc Donald's back in high school? He worked there while he was in high school and part way though college. When he got out of college. He was then hired on to manage a restaurant... and the rest is history! One small decision (to take an after school job), ended up leading to his entire career. I bet he didn't see that coming when he decided to take an after school job!
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