Timing IS Everything

Now, I know the timing of this post is odd, but I wanted to keep it shorter and mix it up a bit. Plus, my boss just informed me that we're getting out early, so I didn't want to take up too much time thinking about what to write. I'll get back to less serious topics next post. Enjoy.

This summer, I've been taking it easy in terms of going out at night. I still have been out a lot on the weekends, but the weekday adventures have been fewer than any time I can remember since being out of high school. This decision, albeit somewhat determined by outside circumstances has given me a lot of time to think; probably too much time. I've thought about a lot of instances throughout my life that has greatly changed who I am, and how I view things. I've come to one conclusion, the most important aspect in anyone's life is TIMING.

Timing is involved in almost everything that we do, and has the possibility to change everything drastically. In football, if the wide receiver and quarterback don't have the right timing, then the pass is usually off target and results in an incompletion or an interception. Should you leave your house at the right moment, your timing could result in you catching every light and being late. Shoot, even when saying "that's what she said" timing is crucial. Time it correctly, you get laughs, time it incorrectly and everyone stares at you with a stupid look on their face like your one of those hidden-image pictures.

Most often, timing is not something that is carefully planned out, it is just a coincidence that a certain series of events have led up to. When I was applying to colleges, I was originally determined to go out-of-state. I applied to only two schools in Florida, and four schools in other states. When it came to picking one, I was between two schools (UF and Ohio St.). The timing of that UF gave me to make a decision for housing came before I had received all scholarship offers from OSU. Because of this, I made the smart decision and attended UF. This has turned out to be one of the best results of forced timing in my life.

There are other instances where timing is much more complicated and requires many different actions to all occur at once. One summer evening a few years back all of my roommates were out of the house. One had to work, whereas the other two had decided to go to the bars. I, for one of the few times that summer, had decided to stay in. I had been playing X-Box most of the evening, but remembered that I needed to check a couple things on the computer. The roommate that was working was going to be home soon, and since my computer was broken, I had to use his, so I wanted to make sure to be done before he got home as to not bother him. For some reason, I signed on to AIM (which has now become completely useless) and a few moments later received a message from someone I had not talked to all that much, and had only known briefly. This single moment lead to many other conversations, and a very confusing and complicated situation. I, to this day, wonder what would be different had I not stayed in that night.

Not all of the things that timing affects is ground breaking. Shit, you could be at the right spot at the right time and find five bucks. You could be the guy who happens to walk up to the bar when the girl next to you decides it's time to go home with someone. Subtle or out in the open, timing is the key to everything. Shoot, even my fall roommate and now good friend, was a result of when a fight happened at a party.

While many of us take the things that occur in our lives for granted, which I myself do very often; If we really look back, we will know that most of our lives have been greatly affected by the timing of or within certain situations. Whether it be how your parents met, something that happened to them that has affected you, or bumping into someone you know that winds up being your spouse later down the road.

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