We Are All Someone’s Angel At Some Time - alternativeSOHO

This world is a busy one. People hurrying about to get business done as usual and cursing when it isn’t. Sometimes we may even find ourselves in places where we don’t want to be or expect to be, and it causes a great amount of confusion. Not necessarily mental confusion, but more of an inward confusion. We begin to question many things in life and wonder why things are the way they are.

Well, I have just eight words to say to that: we are all someone’s angel at some time.

On an episode of Ghost Hunters on Sci-Fi last night, something jumped out while they were contemplating their reasons for being there. One of the characters said:

“If we had not been in this spot and this time, they would have crashed into the rocks”

It turns out that there were two men floating in a boat on a very rough part of the sea next to an old lighthouse. A normally unmanned lighthouse. They had been floating for some 5+ hours and in an act of desperation and hope, they fired off their last flare. If the gentleman (who, at the beginning of the show, wasn’t thrilled on going) hadn’t decided to go, the coast guard would not have been there to help these two men.

Watching this reminded me of an incident a couple years back while I was attending school. My teacher had scheduled a field trip to the police station for our class instead of the normal classroom hour. He had us write down the date we were to go to the police station instead of to the school, which I did.

Thursday rolled around, the date written in my planner (which I was sure was correct) and I arrived at the police station 30 minutes prior to class starting. We were to all meet in the lobby area at least 10 minutes before class, but I didn’t see any other students. I got a little worried when it was 20 ’til and asked the front desk clerk if there were any other students or if they had possibly met in another area and she told me she had no idea.

I sat back down and a couple minutes later a lady sat down next to me. I looked over at her and noticed she was crying. I politely said “you look like you could use a hug” and she managed a weak smile. I asked her if she wanted to talk about it while I wait for my classmates and within a couple minutes, she began to open up. That’s when I learned of her terrible story.

I explained to her that she was a strong women just by coming to the police station and was taking a step forward, not only herself, but for other women who may be abused in this way. The words that left her mouth after that touched something deep in my heart:

“If you weren’t here, I would have left. Thank you.”

A few seconds after she said that, the police officer came out and requested her presence. She got up and followed him into the room. It was approaching 10 minutes until class was to begin and still no sign of any students, so I glanced at my planner again and realized I was a week off.

I hopped in my car and began driving only to realize that there was evening rush hour traffic to deal with. I was 15 minutes away from school (on a light traffic day), and my teacher was a stickler for punctuality. Things looked pretty grim at that point and instead of realizing what had just transpired, I was concerned about my attendance record and cursing the fact that I had to deal with traffic all because I was seeing the wrong date in my planner.

As I parked my car in the lot at school, I took a deep breath, grabbed my books and hoped for the best. I walked into class apologizing for being late and the teacher just looked at me with a puzzled expression. The clock above his desk told me I wasn’t late at all, I still had 1 minute to be seated.

Needless to say, I was completely baffled, but thankful. It also gave me time afterwards to realize that sometimes things happen that affect the grand scheme of things and the world is much larger than my dayplanner, deadlines, and class schedules.

The next time you find yourself somewhere you don’t want to be, didn’t expect to be, or find yourself inconvenienced by your locale - remember that you’re right where you need to be right when you need to be there. It can be something as massive as saving someone’s life or as small as providing the support they need to accomplish something, and you may not even realize that you’re doing it.