Thanks, Universe

I feel happy today. I read once that people don't recognize when they are happy often enough, so I want to try and do that more. But mainly I got on here to post something I've been thinking about. I'm starting to think that I believe somewhat in that theory that if you put something out into the universe, it will happen; sort of like self-fulfilling prophecies. This is pretty much opposite of how I normally see the world, but there are just little things that I look back on that either I or someone else said, or I thought, and then I realized much later that these things have come true...like there was foreshadowing going on in my life without me even knowing it. I'm sure that this happens to everyone, and probably happens even more than I realize, sometimes in the form of me doing things I say I will never do. I just remember my sophomore year of high school, we played a get to know you game in seminary, and one question we had to answer was "What is the funnest date you've ever been on/a date you want to go on" and as a little 15-year-old with no dating experience I decided to go big or go home and say "Disneyland." And my teacher said "whoa, that's a pretty big date. Maybe save that for your honeymoon." It was only much later, looking back on the year, that I realized "hey, I did what I said I wanted to do" because later that year, before I went on any "real" dates, I ended up going to Disneyland with a school group where a boy I didn't know before, for reasons I could not fathom, started to talk to me, and hang out with me, and share his food with me, and text me when we weren't together, and ride the rides and go to shows with me, and sit with me talking about surprisingly deep and emotional thoughts that we had, and walk through Downtown Disney with his arm around me in what I can only describe as my first little fling where I felt like here was a boy that I want to be with all the time, with us texting the whole drive home and sleepily finding each other at each gas station pit stop because we were on separate buses, until we got back to the real world which luckily still included texting and chemistry class, actually (what is it about chemistry class...), at least for that school year. While that was not technically a date where a boy asks a girl out, I still count it. Prophecy fulfilled. Also, I was not planning on writing that all out but it was an event in my life that I had forgotten about and it was kind of fun to look back on it.
The other example I was thinking about was funny because I don't know if I subconsciously knew what I was doing or if it was just a coincidence. For some reason one of my favorite memories I have of my sister and her husband is this one time my other sister and I were driving to their apartment, and we got to the parking lot, and it was a crazy windy day, and we just see them holding hands and laughing and running through the parking lot and I don't know why that image is so vivid in my mind but I just thought "I want that. I want that someday." Flash forward to about a month ago, and I'm walking down the parkway holding someone's hand and not wanting to stop holding it because I knew once that day was over then everything was probably over. And it was a really windy day. And I don't even remember why, but we started to run across the road through the parking lot to his car. It's only now that I thought "Well, you got what you wanted."
Also I wanted to share this quote that I got from facebook (which doesn't make it any less true, I guess): "We must be willing to get rid of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us." Now I am more of a believer in making your own luck and taking what you want rather than destiny and such, but I do think this is a good reminder that we don't always know best and sometimes better things will happen than we can even plan for if we are ready and open for them.
Well now that my journal entry is complete, I will finally stop rambling. Over and out.