But then I would have missed the most important lesson of my life.
Sometimes, the future doesn’t arrive as a grand opportunity or a perfect plan.
Sometimes, it arrives in the form of a stranded woman beneath a restaurant awning, a rainy road, and a conversation you weren’t expecting to have.
Sometimes, it begins with a simple question.
Are you okay?
And sometimes, the answer takes a lifetime to understand.
Because the night I went to pick up my best friend’s mother, I thought I was helping someone get home.
I never imagined that, one day, she would become my home.
If you’d like, I can also write an alternative ending with a shocking final twist or a more dramatic, emotional version with a bigger confrontation between Alex, Karen, Daniel, and Michael.
