"Eveline" is a story about a girl who is trying to decide on weather to leave her home or not. She is stuck being staying home and taking care of her father and brothers, or fleeing into the night with the love of her life, Frank. Frank proposed to her and "she was about to explore another life with Frank". There was one catch though. Her mother made Eveline promise on her death bed that she would keep their home together as long as she could. This was the dilemma that Eveline kept going back to.
Turns out in the end she decides, even though she doesn't want too, respect and obey her late mother's wishes and stay home. She is sad to see her love go, but knows it is for the best.
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This reminds me of a certain encounter I had at a party once. My friends and I randomly ended up at a house party, by the time we got there it was pretty full and everyone was enjoying themselves (and their "kool-aid" of course!). Anyway, for some reason I was drawn to the corner of the room where this guy looked pretty relaxed like the "cool-kid" on the block. Around him was a poorly gathered line of people. I was intrigued, so like you would, I went to investigate. Turns out this guy was suggesting that he was a fortune teller and assured me he could predict my future. So me, trying to figure out if this guy was for real or not, temporarily plays along and asked for my future to be told. He was a complete stranger, didn't know my name, how old I was, or where I was from. My friends and I were all laughing and giggling at this mysterious person, thinking "what in the world is this guy on?". However, half way into my "reading", he became suddenly interesting in my "head line" (according to him). He noticed that I had a branch in mine. After some extra observing he says to me, "You don't know what you want to do with your life do you?". Catching me in the middle of a chuckle, I stopped. Sure I had a game plan the next few years and blah blah blah. But I could tell the way he was looking at me he didn't mean "right now", he meant the bigger picture. He then continues on saying that "in about 3-4 months (this party being in April), you are going to make a really big decision, weather it's the right one or wrong one it's up to you".
Now, in my mind, I knew that I was in my last year of high school, and that grad was coming up in May, and college plans and decisions were soon going to have to be made in the next few months. I assumed that this was the "big decision" he was speaking of was where I was going to move to for school, and how I will adjust to school. But how would this person, who doesn't know not one thing about me, have any idea about that? Call it luck, call it coincidence, hell; call me crazy, I actually believed he had a clue what he was talking about. It surprised me I must say.
My point with this story is I too have went through what Eveline is talking about. And I'm almost guaranteed a lot of other people have been too. In a moment of weakness, there is a thin line between the responsible thing to do, and the immature thing to do. Sure, I could have stayed home after high school, lived off my parents (actually, there is a better chance of me winning the lottery then my Dad letting me skip off College), and play video games all day and night. Sounds pretty sweet, right? But I knew, as did Eveline in her case, it wasn't the right thing to do.
At the end of the day, weather your mind tells you different, you know you made the right decision in your heart. If otherwise, you wouldn't have chose it!
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*Just a random picture I found on google of a palm reading diagram. Maybe it will clarify things for you, cause it don't for me! haha
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