Peculiarly Classic

When life goes a completely different way than expected, your minds plays tricks on you. I was beginning to accept that all I had going now, was all there was for me. I stopped thinking about what else could be out there and learn to stop dreaming and praying for big things, only to be disappointed again. A few years ago, I had been invited to tour and interview for possibly becoming a PH. D student at a major university. Considering this was four years after I received my master’s degree and still had no job, I knew this was God finally giving me my shot for success. I was brought in, wined and dined and showered with compliments and praise and positive feedback. I went back home, and a rejection letter followed soon after. Devastated is an understatement. Extremely depressed. Embarrassed. It was the cruelest joke God had ever played on me. Why would he let them build my hopes up for them to come crashing down? And since I had run out of options for what I thought was th