All Across the Universe...

I've had some decisions to make lately. So many decisions. Most of them I can make by just putting in some work, one I just keep going back and forth, so I thought I'd try something new. I decided to let the universe decide for me. I don't know how I feel about that whole thing, about "letting the universe decide." I believe that everything happens for a reason, but the universe being the decider?

Anyway, I decided to let it decide yes or no. I would go with whatever the universe wanted. I said if this is supposed to be yes all the stop lights on my way home will be green. What better way? Besides, the universe is in charge of those things, right? I figured there were enough lights that there would be no way I could misread the results. All greens would be a sure sign. I passed through the first light with no problem. I could see the next light change from red to green and I thought, "Here it goes. This is it. This is going to work."

Turns out of the six lights on my drive home, only one was green. 1 in 6. That's only 16%. There is no way to make that into a positive. No way to rationalize a win out if that. And as I was sitting at the last light, stopped (because it was red of course), I decided something. I don't believe that you can leave it all to the universe; that you can give up responsibility and hope for the best. There has to be some truth the saying, "Nothing in this world worth having comes easy."

I guess I've made up my mind. I mean sometimes the lack of a decision is a decision in and of itself, right? Now if only I could get rid of those pesky consequences...

On a side note, I found this post-it that a customer left for me yesterday. I have to say--it totally made my day. Probably my week.