Chance

It's amazing how much of our lives is left up to chance. Every little movement, every little choice we make, completely alters the future, even if it is only a minute thing to change, like time of arrival, which, even that can be grande.

You get all these people who are like "I control my future, I decide what I do, where I go and who I meet", which, in a way, is true but slightly by personal decision, because it's so impossible so determine absolute outcome. If your so much as 30 seconds late crossing the street, you could miss a car that would otherwise have hit you. Everything around us is chance. Like exchange. You take a chance and become completely in limbo. You don't offcially belong to the country your in, but you aren't in your own country, so it's a big chance that you take that you'll belong.

Personally, coming on exchange was the best chance I ever took. You're faced with decisions on chance everyday. Every decision is a fork in the road. Should I go? Should I stay? You have no way of knowing what will happen if you choose either, but one shows you strength and independance, builds up your personality and creates courage, while the other is a comfortable life, surrounding by the same thing on a different day. Meeting the people I've met is really a once in a lifetime thing, and I don't know if I would've ever met them otherwise because that, my friends, is up to chance.