<p>DS, I get where you and your family are coming from, but the beauty for your DD is that you can give her real life examples of how you thought a dream was crushed, only to realize you were happier in what FATE had in store for you.</p>
<p>This is also true for Bullet. Had my Father never been diagnosed with cancer, his career path would have been different. He never intended or thought as an ROTC cadet that he would jump out of perfectly good airplanes with the 82nd, but he did. It is what we do at the crossroads that determine our path.</p>
<p>I recall, when Bullet was at Elmendorf, they approached him to x train as a WSO to Pilot. It was a hard decision, but in the end, he declined. For yrs prior to that option it tugged on him in the “what if” category, yet he came to realize he was more than happy and fulfilled in the position he was in at that time. He didn’t see a need to roll the dice.</p>
<p>Potter, may see this as the beginning of the end, but if it is truly in her cards, someday she may be like Bullet and decide that it wasn’t that. It was actually the beginning of what she was destined for.</p>