Exaltist Ethan
Bridging the Gap Between Believers and Skeptics
I'm curious as to situations that almost happened in your life, but didn't happen. I'm talking like, if things happened even slightly differently, how your life would be impacted by such. Let me explain my example.
When I was living on the east side I mainly applied to two places for the next place I would live. Lake Forest 2 and Greenbrook. And in fact, I applied at Lake Forest 2 before Greenbrook. I even applied there twice and removed my first application because I entertained the notion that I could and might live with my best friend. That never happened. But I applied at Lake Forest 2 in April and September of 2015, whereas I applied at Greenbrook in October of 2015. I took a tour of Lake Forest 2 in August of that same year.
In January 2016, on the same date, I received a phone call from both places telling me they accepted me and that I could move in at the end of February. Because I got Greenbrook's call a few hours before Lake Forest 2's call, I decided to take them up on their offer, and accepted their invitation for me to live there. And the funny thing is, while I know now that Greenbrook is a better apartment, I only took a tour of that location after I had already agreed to live there. It was risky of me to accept an offer like that without really knowing the property. For the most part, I accepted their invitation at that moment because I knew that neighborhood and my parents lived three blocks away from it.
Had things been slightly different, like Lake Forest 2 calling me before Greenbrook, I would have accepted their offer and I'd be living in a completely different situation right now. Instead of being in a suburb I would be in an exurb, and my life would be so different than it is right now. I think about this situation and realize that things could have turned out so drastically different, and in my opinion, probably much worse than they are now. But I didn't know that before taking the tour of Greenbrook in January of 2016.
However, if things for whatever reason don't work out with Greenbrook, I always have Lake Forest 2's website and phone number to apply at their location again. I never had a situation like this where the difference in change was so close together. I mean, there were things that I wish had happened differently, but typically with those things, it was obvious at one point that the change I wanted to happen wasn't going to occur. I got the call from Greenbrook Apartments that day, and after I accepted their offer, I was planning on calling Lake Forest 2 the next day to tell them that I took a different offer, but Lake Forest 2 called and told me I was accepted only a few hours after Greenbrook's call. Something like this has never happened to me before.
I just find this whole situation entirely unique because for whatever reason I was pulled out of two waiting lists on the exact same day, and that to me was different than just about any other situation that I wish had or had not happened. I've been living in Greenbrook now for almost seven years. It will be seven years next March. But now that I know that Lake Forest 2 will accept me for sure, I now always have something to fall back on in case the scenario at this apartment complex changes and I cannot live here anymore. Because I took tours and know both places quite well, I know Greenbrook is overall a better location and apartment for me than Lake Forest 2, but I always wondered if things happened just slightly differently, and Lake Forest 2 called me first, I wonder how my life would be different due to that difference.
Typically, when there is a fork in the road I make the wrong decisions, but thankfully this time I didn't.
TL;DR - Has a significant situation ever occurred to you that a choice you could have made would have been easily different, but you made your final decision at one point and things happened the way they are right now because of it? How would things have been different, do you suppose, if you had taken the other choice? Do you often have regrets regarding the choice you made, and wish you would have chosen the other option at times? Let us know what you think below.
When I was living on the east side I mainly applied to two places for the next place I would live. Lake Forest 2 and Greenbrook. And in fact, I applied at Lake Forest 2 before Greenbrook. I even applied there twice and removed my first application because I entertained the notion that I could and might live with my best friend. That never happened. But I applied at Lake Forest 2 in April and September of 2015, whereas I applied at Greenbrook in October of 2015. I took a tour of Lake Forest 2 in August of that same year.
In January 2016, on the same date, I received a phone call from both places telling me they accepted me and that I could move in at the end of February. Because I got Greenbrook's call a few hours before Lake Forest 2's call, I decided to take them up on their offer, and accepted their invitation for me to live there. And the funny thing is, while I know now that Greenbrook is a better apartment, I only took a tour of that location after I had already agreed to live there. It was risky of me to accept an offer like that without really knowing the property. For the most part, I accepted their invitation at that moment because I knew that neighborhood and my parents lived three blocks away from it.
Had things been slightly different, like Lake Forest 2 calling me before Greenbrook, I would have accepted their offer and I'd be living in a completely different situation right now. Instead of being in a suburb I would be in an exurb, and my life would be so different than it is right now. I think about this situation and realize that things could have turned out so drastically different, and in my opinion, probably much worse than they are now. But I didn't know that before taking the tour of Greenbrook in January of 2016.
However, if things for whatever reason don't work out with Greenbrook, I always have Lake Forest 2's website and phone number to apply at their location again. I never had a situation like this where the difference in change was so close together. I mean, there were things that I wish had happened differently, but typically with those things, it was obvious at one point that the change I wanted to happen wasn't going to occur. I got the call from Greenbrook Apartments that day, and after I accepted their offer, I was planning on calling Lake Forest 2 the next day to tell them that I took a different offer, but Lake Forest 2 called and told me I was accepted only a few hours after Greenbrook's call. Something like this has never happened to me before.
I just find this whole situation entirely unique because for whatever reason I was pulled out of two waiting lists on the exact same day, and that to me was different than just about any other situation that I wish had or had not happened. I've been living in Greenbrook now for almost seven years. It will be seven years next March. But now that I know that Lake Forest 2 will accept me for sure, I now always have something to fall back on in case the scenario at this apartment complex changes and I cannot live here anymore. Because I took tours and know both places quite well, I know Greenbrook is overall a better location and apartment for me than Lake Forest 2, but I always wondered if things happened just slightly differently, and Lake Forest 2 called me first, I wonder how my life would be different due to that difference.
Typically, when there is a fork in the road I make the wrong decisions, but thankfully this time I didn't.
TL;DR - Has a significant situation ever occurred to you that a choice you could have made would have been easily different, but you made your final decision at one point and things happened the way they are right now because of it? How would things have been different, do you suppose, if you had taken the other choice? Do you often have regrets regarding the choice you made, and wish you would have chosen the other option at times? Let us know what you think below.
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