Ironic

I was out of the country for 3 months and I couldn't access blogger from where I was. I *tried* posting from there but the laptop I was using just wasn't cooperating. And now that I'm back here, I get a message that tells me that someone else aside from me actually reads this. *gasp*

While I was gone, I took great leaps and bounds towards resolving this dilemma entitled "What should I be doing with my life?", and 3 months later I was still in the same $hithole... up until yesterday.

It was an epiphany reminiscent of Cher's fountain+lights+music moment in Clueless. Except I was in a shoe store accompanying a friend on her shoe-shopping spree. I was sitting in the middle of the store when I received a text message on my phone from a stranger. And that's it. That's how it got started. It suddenly occurred to me that what if that-which-the-text-message-contained was what I really wanted to do instead of that-which-I-have-been-working-on-for-the-past-3-months? I guess I might have had a dazed look on my face because my friend noticed and asked me what happened. So I told her.

I'm glad I was with her that day because she totally knows what I'm going through, having just gone through a major life change herself. She said she believed I would never be happy if I pursued what I shall now call "Plan A" (the one that I had been working on the past 3 months). She was encouraging and she was supportive and she was exactly the right person I needed at that time.

It still isn't a resolved thing, but Alanis had it down pat when she said life has a funny way of helping you out when you think everything's gone wrong and everything blows up in your face.