THE CURVEBALL: choices that shape future you
We will forever be presented with challenges in this lifetime.
In these times, your character will be exposed.
Your resilience will be tested.
You don’t get to choose the curveball but you do get to choose how you respond.
20 years ago, two friends left on a road trip that ended in tragedy.
Only one returned, and with that, set in motion a chain of events, circumstances and decisions that would change the lives of not just the immediate people involved, but create a ripple effect that would alter the lives of many others, myself included.
A tragic curveball that no one saw coming.
More than two decades on, and upon reflection of how that day impacted my own future, I now see the lesson in it all.
Curveballs are a part of life that we simply cannot escape.
Some are painful in the moment, but later you realise they were best thing.
Some are just plain devastating.
Some start out as terrible twists of fate but end up being the catalyst that set you on the right path.
Either way, they are all part of the master plan that is your life.
You have a choice to remain stuck in the curveball, or, to accept what’s happened, do the work, and move forward.
Neither will be easy, but it’s a choice you will make - either consciously or subconsciously.
Your next chapter will be determined by which choice you make.
The life defining question is, which will you choose?
He chose to stay stuck and it took me 8 years to realise that for me to move forward, I needed to let him go.
… and so began my next chapter.
