Second Chances

I’ve been thinking about writing this for a while! Well what can I say, the thinker in me loves writing thought-provoking posts. I want to start off by saying my life isn’t perfect, nobody’s is. But what I do count on are taking chances and keeping a positive outlook.

Why am I bringing this up, you ask? Well, I recently had some thoughts and experiences that got me thinking about second chances. ‘Second chance’ is a broad concept, I never gave it so much importance as I do now. Here’s a story that ‘sort of’ rolled the dice:

Back in college, I was a Yoga lover (fair to say I was ‘obsessed’ with yoga). Any free time I had between school and work, I would spend time volunteering and assisting teachers at studios or workshops. Then one day it hit me – “I should become a teacher!” I had the flexible skinny body and had all the postures pinned down. But where was I mentally? I loved the idea of being a yoga instructor, I loved the lifestyle, I loved leading my own classes and have people look at me with admiration. Mentally I was too focused on the exterior motives. Fast forward, I broke my finger, got a job after graduating college, fell in love, started focusing on material and so many other things. Honestly those were all excuses, truth was I checked out. Another truth – I wasn’t confident. Lack of confidence, ahh, the killer!

And then fast forward again (breakups, weight gain, new ventures and now death of a parent), I am staring here at the computer screen as I read an email from a studio, asking if I’d like to collaborate and go through a Yoga Instructor training. I was in disbelief, because what are the chances that my fashion-focused blog can attract a fitness establishment. While on the phone with my mom, she expressed how this was a “chance to rekindle my lost relationship, a second chance to make things right” (typing this made me realize how dramatic my mother is!). 

There are so many things I wish I could get a second chance on. I can ask for my father to be alive again, go back to college and pick a different major, or even stop that boy you cared about from getting away years ago. Truth it, there isn’t a genie that’s going to magically make our miseries disappear and things just reappear. Second chances are rare and often unexpected. Unexpected but, consciously or unconsciously, highly desired. What I’m trying to get to is – life is unexpected and things happen that seem unfair or hopeless. But no matter what the negativity is, waking your senses and always following up on opportunities can go a long way!