I told my children that they wouldn't exist if it wasn't an earthquake.
It was May 1990, just a few weeks before graduating from my high school. I was bound to UC Berkeley - school ID and dormitory mission in hand - when I suddenly received a letter from Stanford. The 6.9 -degree Loma Prieta earthquake, which previously raised the Gulf and caused heavy damage to the Palo Alto campus, obviously afraid of future students. Therefore, Stanford took me and countless others out of the waiting list, late to give us the points in its upcoming class.
I often wonder what my life would be like if the earth didn't tremble and I was still a bear bear. I have been enrolled as a civilian expert, so I will probably follow that path seriously and be built and structured to the world today. In fact, I mean. I went to Stanford that has not been declared, passionate, and finally graduated from an urban research degree and a book editor. I then did 180 and pursued a financial career after taking the MBA.
Meaning more, my wife, Margaret and I will not meet. We found each other in a first -year student orientation, dating for seven years and getting married at the Stanford Memorial Church. Without a earthquake, we will lead life in parallel with the bay, our paths never cross. We will never experience our greatest joy: parent our son, Sam and Charlie.
A lot of what I respect - and, wider, my people today - simply don't exist. With these profound things, what if I, sometimes I think I like a ball falling into Pachinko, Ricocheting between the legs on a road shaped by random events. Life, it seems that itself is an opportunity game. With one bounce forever my trajectory, I wonder, how much I really have in my future control?
B Eing is included in the waiting list and almost not entering Stanford is a waking call. After most of my life until that time, I began to grasp that difficult work that only took me away. To emphasize this point, I only have to look at my two friends who have completely entered Stanford; They not only own impressive login information but also