Life is a wonderful and mysterious thing
We travel, we live and actions take place…
And we wonder if the events in our life are set on stone, if we are destined for something or if we just took the right or wrong decisions in our life.
Is there such thing as two paths or are we set to have both options but will always take the same path?
Sometimes in life I feel that we are destined for something, like life is guiding us to a greater purpose or just to achieve our dreams, then again this comes from an overly positive person who never stop fighting for what he wants… maybe I am biased. Over this past months I was convinced I wanted to do a Ph.D in Clinical Psychology and a post-doc in Neuropsychology. I applied to 10 schools of clinical psychology, 2 called me for interview and only 1 accepted me. The thing is that the only one that accepted me was in my homeland, a place I love but I wouldn’t want to keep studying here. Then an opportunity aroused, I wrote to a program wondering if they had any research opportunities and they wrote me saying that if I was able to complete the process of application over a weekend they would consider me (this after 2 months that the deadline had passed). A couple of days after the weekend I receive a call informing me I was accepted to participate in a neuroscience summer program, that’s when I knew I had to go there, this opportunity was for me the chance to change my life. I was there for 2 month and I learned I was enjoying what I was doing, at the end of the program they offered me the opportunity to stay for a whole year taking classes and doing research, of course I accepted the offer!
I will be there for a year, this rise my chances to get into that grad school in the neuropsychology program with the studies payed, and already had a year done with the classes I will take. If I go with clinical the program wont support me nor credit the classes I will take. I wonder is this the path for me (neuro) or should I go back to my original plan of clinical? I am still planing on applying to both neuro and clinical, but what if life makes the decision for me? or what if it makes me choose? Should I stay in neuro or go back to clinical? Of course this year will be one of self discovery and learning, where I will know if I do like neuro but then again how do I know I didn’t prefer clinical?
Something tells me I am on the right path to achiving my goal, but I wonder if this is the feeling of someone who felt lost and was found by this opportunity first… This is going to be some year.
Gets me thinking if this was the work of fate or just life.


