So for the past two weeks, I've really been trying to decide about whether or not I will go abroad next fall. If you had asked me three years ago if I planned to study abroad in college, I would have surely answered with an emphatic "yes!" but it's so late in the game now that it's serioulsy a pain in the butt to find the write program. Then I found out the English dept. is going to Venice, and I thought huh... maybe it'll be Venice, then. So I decided to look for signs because as you probably know, I am horrible at making decisions. Really, it's bad, and I'm sort of embarrassed about it because it's not like I don't have opinions or goals. I just always wish I could see ahead to learn which option will turn out to be better. It's so hard when you don't know who you'd end up living with over there, you know? Yes... so back to the signs. Here goes nothing:
Exihibit A:
ok, so I happened to be sitting in the international/travel section in Borders, so this may not exactly be too crazy, but these two people proceeded to talk about Venice for like 30 minutes right in front of me. Interesting, but like I said, some skeptics may claim that the likelihood that something like that would happen increased dramatically since I was in that section. So, I wasn't sure what to make of that and just noted it.
Exhibit B:
please see the picture that hopefully I uploaded correctly to my blog. (wow, this will be the first picture!)
yes, I saw this written on a bathroom wall. The quote is crazy enough as it is, but then there was my name at the bottom of it. Now if that isn't a sign, what is?!
Additionally, I would have to take summer school in order to knock out my remaining divisionals, and I thought this would stop me from going abroad, but I was complaining to Shelia Lockheart of the Religion dept., and she told me I could stay in one of the guest rooms in her house over the summer. wow and wow. Some people are just so nice it makes me wonder if there is something wrong or different about them for being so nice or if there is something wrong about everyone else.
Yes, so I think I am meant to go abroad. Now the question will just be... where? and how the heck am I going to pay for it?
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Hey, that's great you decided to go abroad! Definitely should be a great experience. In case you didn't know, apparently that quote (from Exihibit B) is from the play "Nathan the Wise," in which there is a character named Rachel.
As for me, I believe in signs as a means of realizing what we truly want (but not so much as a means of the Universe, or God or whatever, telling us what is right). In other words, signs can be like mirrors. When our heart really feels something is right for us, that feeling is apparent in how we interpret the world around us, and is reflected back to us in these signs that our mind recognizes. So I see signs as a way of our heart speaking to our brains, if that makes any sense. And I do believe in following our hearts.
Good luck in working everything out for going abroad!
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