Destiny

I was never one to believe in destiny. I liked the idea of it, of course. I would have liked to have been able to put all my hope into believing that someday, fate would bring me right where I needed to be. But I just couldn’t do it. I don’t work like that. I need facts and proof to be able to truly trust anything. And then you walked into my life out of nowhere and I had all the proof I needed. I barely even knew you existed. You dated one of my friends for a while. She sent me your texts when you broke up. I remember her not being very upset. If you had been part of my life then, I don’t know what would have happened. It wasn’t the best time in my life and I definitely wasn’t looking for what we have. But this year, there you were. In the right place at the right time. I got over everything that happened the previous year, and you helped with that without even knowing. I started feeling like my entire life had led up to us. I spent months convincing myself you were just another crush that would never happen. I knew it was more, though, and luckily for me, you felt something too. I don’t know if our entire lives have been positioned around us starting to spend time together. I think a lot of how with a few small changes, this would have never happened. It’s crazy to think about how the smallest things in our lives lead to the biggest changes. It has made me begin to wonder if it is all planned. What if this is destiny? What if someone somewhere at some point decided that we would someday end up together? I’m used to fantasizing about this kind of thing. I have a million theories about how destiny could be true. But they have always stayed in my head. They were more of ideas for fantasy stories than things I was actually tricking myself into believing. But you’ve taken me past my fantasies. You’ve made me actually begin to consider the thing I have never thought about believing before. This is too perfect to be a coincidence.