You probably read the headline and thought to yourself, "this better be a good story..." and then your next thought might have been, "or this guy is full of BS trying to catch peoples attention with click-bait."
I promise you it's not the latter... lol
It was a heated battle, the score was one-to-one, with whoever won the next round, would take home the glory and decide both of our destinies.
Rock
Paper
Scissors
SHOOT!
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We both looked down and started to laugh hysterically. He won.
It didn't feel like a life changing event at the time, but of course looking back it was.
Since he won, his pick for what we would do after high school was set in stone. We were to both join the military after we graduated. If I would have won, we both would have went to college somewhere close to home, but that destiny wasn't meant to be.
It felt more like a sense of relief since I didn't have to decide on it. lol
As a young person, making decisions like this isn't too big of a deal. You can always pivot to something different. You can also be flaky and back out. You're young, it's almost to be expected.
Looking back, it wasn't a mistake. It wasn't destiny. It was just what happened at that time. I credit that small, yet impactful, event to be a great step towards me growing as a person.
It's all how you look at your life and past experiences. You could arbitrarily say things were stupid or dumb, or you could look that them as connecting the dots. The connections that led to where you are now.
Look back at your past as positive experiences. You can't take them back, but you can use them as lessons to learn from.