Full circle (and why i believe in fate)

I’ve been dumped twice in my life and both times Karen Koehler was there to lift me up.

The first time I got dumped I don’t know why I told Karen— I’d only known her a few months then. And getting dumped was something I considered private and shameful. But I felt a deep connection. And I’m an intuitive connector- I know when I meet someone if I will love them deeply or keep them at the surface. 

Turns out I journaled about the day I told Karen this news, and the significance that simple conversation:

This second time I got dumped, I had known Karen seven years and I called her because I knew I was at a crossroads and I needed help. I rarely ask for help. But I needed a powerful presence outside myself to tell me it would be okay. She called me every day for four months. Every day. Just to check on me. She told me her awful break up stories and she told me “this is destiny.” And it was. Now I work with her. And that investment and that empathy are two of the reasons I chose to take a leap of faith and take a job at the Stritmatter firm this April. 

It’s funny how life comes full circle. It’s funny how things that are meant to be are meant to be. But it doesn’t always look the way I thought it would. It doesn’t always happen in the way I thought it would. Sometimes there is pain. Perhaps growth always starts with pain.

And it turns out when Karen says she saw something special in me- she meant it. Those were not empty words to heal a broken heart. And those words meant as much to me as a baby attorney just growing wings as it does now that I’m “all grown up,” looking to be bigger and better than myself.

Seven years later, I still remember.