Today, I accidentally locked my car keys into my car at a coffee shop half an hour away from my house (don't ask me how), and this seemingly meaningless inconvenience prompted me to write this article.
I really buy into that whole "Everything happens for a reason" mentality, which is why, even though I was originally annoyed with myself for doing something so silly, I didn't fret about it for too long. Life is full of little inconveniences, obstacles, and challenges. Most of the time, people grunt over these. However, I've started to be grateful for the instances when little things like such don't pan out the way I anticipated them to.
Imagine if everything in life went exactly the way we expected it to go. How many connections would we miss? How many sunsets would we not see? How many people would we not meet? Individually, those losses might seem inconsequential and small. But collectively, they could be massive. Life, when you really think about it, is mainly happenstances, and as frustrating as it might be when things don't go how you anticipated right off the bat, I've learned to appreciate that because these setbacks give sometimes wonderful happenstances the opportunity to occur. Your life unfolds exactly how it is supposed to. Trust that.
Everything that seems like a setback or an annoying extra hassle is, in my opinion, God (or whatever you believe in-- life, the universe, whatever) protecting you from anything less than the best.
So embrace life's little inconveniences. Don't let the unforeseen get you down and instead, look at it as an opportunity to make more memories and enjoy this beautiful life even more.