The Path I Choose to Walk

Greetings loyal readers! It's been a busy week, training officially ended at the new job, and things regarding my engagement have been flying at us at lightspeed. We have accomplished so much considering we have been engaged only a week. We have set a date, booked a venue, planned out the luncheon, and booked a photographer. Colors and the like are all chosen. So many things have just fallen in to place, I'd like to publicly state how grateful I am for my future mother in law. She has shouldered a great deal of the burdens, and she has been amazing. Thank you Tere, for all your support.

As a Saturday filled with planning activities swirled by us yesterday, one of the things I took a chance to do was examine my life. It is my belief, that no matter who we are, no matter where as are at, we take a look at the path not chosen. I took the time to think about, and discuss with my best friend, who also happens to be my future bride. I wondered, what if I had chosen to stay in Washington after getting my Associate's? What if I'd never gone to Skagit Valley College? Now I know that puzzling over these questions seems pointless, after all, we can't change the past. However, there was a distinct value in my personal musings.

See loyal readers, this journey I've chosen to embark upon, this eternal voyage I've chosen to pursue with my beloved, all has happened because of the decisions I made.

Let me lay something down right here, dear friends, I believe in choice. I am a firm and stalwart believer in the idea of free agency. Yet, I also believe in divine guidance. I have the forebearance to know that every choice in my life, has been with the hand of another in my life. Some may look at my choices and question them, yet I know that I made the decisions that needed to be made. After all, if is never left Washington, I'd never have met my boo. If I'd gotten a scholarship, I'd never have gone to the various places ive now gone. The key fundamental thing that I realized last night is this. I am a sum of my experiences. I was forged by the fires of my trials. I have been tempered by the experiences of myself, and those I've met. The faces of people, some I may never see again, are forever etched on my memory. The events of my life, have folded, and unfolded, forming the puzzle that I am. What I realize now, is there was only one answer to this puzzle.

You see, after everything, the puzzle was incomplete. Yet I have found that single missing piece. The choices of my life, led me to the only possible outcome. Girls have tried to fit the piece in to that last empty slot, and failed. Then, I met my boo. With no apparent effort she clicked that last piece in where it belongs. My life, my puzzle, is complete. I now feel as though every choice and decision makes sense.

I was brought to this point by my choices in life. Every tear, every smile, every pain and every joy, have molded me into the man that was best suited for the amazing woman I now call my fiancé. I raise a prayer of thanks, for everything I have endured, because I know now, beyond any shadow of a doubt, that there was a reason. A reason, that bears the most beautiful name in the world. That reason, was Alicia.

Fair readers, I have bared a portion of my soul tonight. I thank you for the opportunity. As ways, this has been another blog cast of The Rogue Signal. Until next time my friends, good night and good luck.