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Do people come into your life at the right time or is it a situation in which you look back and say it happened for a reason?
What I consider to be my truth is that I stumbled into my profession as a speech and language therapist. I spent much of my young adulthood thinking that I would be a school psychologist. I knew that I wanted to work in schools, and I knew that being a classroom teacher was not in my skillset (I still feel that way when I am asked to substitute in a classroom!). I didn’t really know about speech therapy, and I backed into the career. Could I say that it happened for a reason?
There are many times in our lives when we look to providence for the answers to our questions. Do I take the job? Is this the right decision? What the hell do I do now?
It’s easy to say things happen for a reason- but do they really? Is it more likely that we put an interpretation to events?
I could say that I became a speech therapist because that was what I was supposed to do. It’s also possible that I found a career that made sense for me at the time in my life when I needed to find something to do. I had come to crossroads- I wasn’t pursuing psychology and I knew I couldn’t…
