The following is an introduction to the series “Relationships and Dominoes” by Jennifer Michaels. Jennifer runs Worn Ballet Shoes, is a blogger, and a social media aficionado. Aside from Worn Ballet Shoes you can also find her on Twitter and Facebook.
Now I’m no expert on relationships, but I do feel that I have some insight into this crazy and absurd thing we all call life. It’s different and ever-changing. It’s real and true. It’s amazing and crazy. It’s loving and hateful. But it wouldn’t be all of these things without the people we meet. It wouldn’t BE without relationships.
If you would have asked me even five years ago where I would expect to be in my life, I never would have guessed that I would be where I am. Five years ago I was walking across the stage in my cap and gown, shaking the hand of the president of my college thinking about how hard my four years were and how incredible it felt to finally call myself a college graduate with not just one set of honors, but two. I felt so accomplished, so fulfilled.
My life encompasses so many things that I wasn’t ready for—you know, that thing we all call life. It has its way of sneaking up and surprising me in the most inconvenient of ways. This is about the single most influential part of my life—relationships.
The single most influential aspect of our lives, and we can’t deny this, is the relationships we build along the way. Everywhere we turn we are creating a relationship of some kind. Some of them last longer than others, while the rest begin and then end really quickly. And every type of relationship has its own title: friend, colleague, spouse, parent-child, grandparent-child, student-professor, co-workers, boss-employee, company-customer/client, and these are just a few relationships that I have come to know and be a part of. Every relationship is different, and even if we fall into the same category, the experience is different for each one of us.
It’s important to learn something from your relationships. It doesn’t have to be a life-altering, soul shaking lesson. Keep the knowledge flowing, and remember that even though a river flows in one direction, gravity is its best friend.
Our lives are filled with dominos—everything is connected in our lives. Our choices, good and bad, and the different types of relationships we make along the way affect the outcome of everything else, and there really is no way around that no matter how much we may try to break it apart.
The only thing we can ask of ourselves is to make the best of everything. Time is so precious and is the greatest gift we have for ourselves and for each other. Learn from your decisions and from the relationships we make and if the last shoe drops, don’t let the dominos fall.
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