Half Fruit, Half Vegetable

Today was an exceptional day in my book, a great example of the whole "you never know who you'll run into" thing. I got to leave school early, and watch a movie in one of the two classes I actually attended. The reason for my early departure from Academia was to go to an interview at the Gamestop in the Northwoods shopping district. It turned out great, but only after I went to the wrong location 10 minutes before my interview, barely making it on time to the actual location. Silly me. After the interview I was a little hungry so I decided to grab a bite at Sun Harvest. If you care to know, I ordered a chicken pita, but they were out of chicken so the lady preparing my food used turkey. While I was eating, a lady, who I might add looked very healthy for her age (I assumed mid 50's), sat next to me and asked for a half-fruit half-vegetable slush. Intrigued by the vegetable portion of her order, and being a relatively social guy, I asked her if it was something she ordered often. She said yes and we began to discuss the various taste pros and cons of order full vegetable or full fruit slush es. After some idle banter, I asked her what she did for a living. Lo and behold when I heard her response: A psychologist! Of all the people I could run into on a Friday at a random health store, I run into someone who has made a life-long dedication to the same field I was considering for myself! I told her about my goals of majoring in English and minoring in Psychology, and she said that I was making an excellent choice to major in English. I know that by reading this, you probably don't find the whole situation that interesting and probably fail to see the significance, but hearing somebody who has made an obviously fulfilling living doing what you are considering going into during college and telling you that you are on the right track really boosts your esteem and gives you that little spark to keep on truckin'. So yeah, I guess you never really do know who you'll run into.