what if i told you that all of your unfortunate events are just leading you to the right place.
Would you still complain and worry?
It's june 27th 2022 and i was on my way to milano centrale to take a train to verona where the tale
of romeo and juliet was based .The great thing about interbrow is the flexibility to get on
whatever train you want, BUT the bad thing about interior is that some of the trains do require
reservations, so i made my way to the ticket room and asked for one return ticket to the city of
love. What i did not account for on this day was the possibility of this train being fully booked.
It is peak summer i thought, or maybe there's a lot of business going on in verona this fine
monday morning. So i was directed to another train to verona that was due to leave an hour
earlier but had been delayed until 10 am. As i waited around for an hour to hear news about this
platform for the train i thought to myself "is there any way this train will actually depart?"
It already been over two hours delayed and i did not have complete faith in the italian
train system so i made the decision to go back to the ticket station and find a plan b.
At this moment i said to myself okay i'm in milano central there were trains coming and going every
minute somewhere near maybe these delays mean i'm not supposed to go to verona today. What
trains are next? So i go on the internal app and i look at the trains departing from milan
and started going through my options: i could go to naples but that would take five hours and
i want this to be a one day return trip, i could go to switzerland but i don't feel like spending
seven euros on an espresso today, i could also go to florence but then again it's a little too far.
This is maybe one of the most privileged decisions i've ever made i must have to admit
knowing that i have the ticket to go wherever i want in Europe today and i can make the
decision as impulsively as i feel. And then i found my destination on the florence line:
Bologna. I'll go to bologna and have the best ragu i will ever eat in my life. Of course i
was a little sad i couldn't visit the balcony of true romance but eating a good pasta was a
great backup. When life gives you lemons i guess go to bologna and eat some ragu.
I'm an extreme control freak in life i want everything to be planned it's possibly my worst
future things like this are a great turning for me to learn to let things go. That not everything is
in my control i woke up on time and i got to the train station on time but that was in my control
my train arriving on time not in my control so i can't get annoyed with myself. I did my part
and i can't get annoyed with the italian train system as fate had it i was never meant to
board the train to the city of romeo and julia today. But can i tell you a secret? this ragu
was worth the three hours stress at the train station and i'm glad i went to bologna today.
It's always worth taking a step back when life doesn't go according to plan and think
how can i make this change even better than the original plan
i know my example isn't great as it was a choice between two positive events
but i do think this can work in most cases you didn't get the job you wanted okay keep trying
and wait until you find a better option. i've been searching for flat for a month straight
and every time i get knocked back i have to think, maybe the apartment had hidden mold
or i'll find a better location in the future. As Steve Jobs once said "you cannot connect the
dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards". Most outcomes that were
not ideal at the time will have led to an ideal future the future you were always meant to have .
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