Luck Be A Lady

Today, we watched my daughters perform in a showcase performance that featured scenes and songs from the musical Guys and Dolls (a show that we've managed to see a great many times, in a variety of formats, over the last few years).
 
As we walked home afterwards, we talked a lot about how we and the girls had gotten to this day--how their desire for theater opportunities had led them to, and away from, certain places, what they were looking for, and how exactly they landed in this place, and with this theater group. As the conversation progressed, I was struck by how many seemingly small choices had led to eventually large results. Had school searches gone differently, perhaps they wouldn't have looked for outside theater. Had we chosen to live somewhere else, maybe they wouldn't have ended up in this program. If our Saturdays were still consumed with karate, this opportunity would not even have been possible. So, while taking on a theater training program might seem like a choice unto itself, it is actually also the lucky result of a series of other choices (and, as in Guys and Dolls, the product of a bit of gambling).
 
Each day, we make choices that, though they seem small, can affect the larger choices available to us. You can't always know what path you are following when you take each step--sometimes, you just have to hope that your destinations are lucky ones.
 
Today, it was clear that the series of choices that led us here had been lucky ones. An afternoon of Guys and Dolls for us, and for my daughters, a year full of singing, dancing, acting, exciting experiences, new challenges, and new friends. Sounds pretty lucky to me.