*If I didn't ever fall in love as a freshman with a junior who was taking a high school bookkeeping class, I might never have majored in accounting
*If I didn't ever major in accounting and taken a CPA review class
immediately upon
graduating from college, I might never have met my husband
graduating from college, I might never have met my husband
*If I didn't ever meet my husband, I might never have
been blessed by my two very beautiful and now very
grown-up daughters
been blessed by my two very beautiful and now very
grown-up daughters
*If I didn't ever have those two girls, I might never
have worked from home as a bookkeeper for my husband’s CPA practice
have worked from home as a bookkeeper for my husband’s CPA practice
*If I didn't ever work for my husband, I might never have had a schedule that permitted me to volunteer for the PTA activities
in their elementary school
*If I didn't ever get involved with that PTA, I might never have become the treasurer on its executive board
* If I didn't ever serve on the board, our
principal might never had known me from any other mom in his school
*If I didn't ever work closely with the principal, I might never have become a teacher
*If I did not ever become a teacher, I can’t imagine becoming.
*If I did not ever become a teacher, I can’t imagine becoming.
Your post reminds me of the poem "The Road Not Taken". I like the way you step back and reflect on the choices that brought you to where you are today! Well done!
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written this poem
if not for the fact that you
wrote your post
and if you had never written your post
I might never have written
this poem
and found a way to connect on a cold
Monday morning
when words are the only warmth in the air
and I take what I can get.
-Kevin
Love how you wrote the poem; thanks for sharing. I would like to do one like this.
ReplyDeleteI love your finale: If I did not ever become a teacher, I can’t imagine becoming.
ReplyDeleteI so agree!!!!!
There really is a purpose for everything!
ReplyDeleteThis was touching to read.. So often you read "what if" poems--what if I had done this differently or had chosen this instead of that--and you're left thinking, okay, so what about your life has been good if you still have so many unanswered questions? Your poem was different because it wasn't at all regretful, but instead thankful. Very refreshing! Loved your last line too.. I hope someday I will be able to take a step back and say that things worked out in my favor.
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