How to deal with detours

One thing that I have learned over the years is sometimes you just have to go with the flow. Life has a funny way of not going the way we plan for it to go. No matter how much we anticipate things, everything will not always go a planned.

When I was in eigth grade, I ended up having to have rods put in my back. I never planned to have that surgery but I knew that I needed to have it or my back get a lot worse then it already was. I especially did not plan on having to go back to the hospital and staying a total of fifty-six days because of a staff infection in the last six inches of where they cut into me. It was a hard time for our family, but we did what we had to do in oder to eventually get back to our normal lives. No matter how long it took.

Whwn I was a sophmore in college, I though that I was going to do one thing for my career, but life took me on a detour to show me what I really needed to do with my career. I never thought that I would have chosen to do anything close to what I'm doing now, but that detour showed me that I enjoyed that subject after all.

Today is the tenth anniversary of when those terrible 2011 tornadoes came through. We did not expect to have to get out of town because of all of the debris in the air. We also did not have power for several days so we couldn't charge up my electrical wheelchair. We ended up going to the beach so that was a nice detour.

Not all detours are bad ones, Sometimes they are put in our paths in order to show us where we need to go in life or to simply just give us a break from our normal daily routines. When the bad detours come though, you just have to go with the flow and ride out the storm. The only thing that matters in the end, is how you approach these detours and what you learn from them!