When the Universe Unexpectedly Affirms Your Life Choices

When you know you’re right, you’re right, and sometimes the universe just lets you know.

Rachel Presser
8 min readMay 8, 2022

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Smiling woman in a yellow t-shirt holding a bearded dragon lizard on her shoulder
Licensed via Adobe Stock // I’m aiming for a much bigger lizard, but I think the model feels the same about her beardie.

I interrupt my vacation in Ireland to quickly churn this out for the Internet, for the sudden rush of emotion brought on by the past few days was that powerful.

I’ve been on the road and in the sky for several weeks and now reporting from Ireland. I did a travelogue of my return to the east coast, and being back in the homeland made me realize how affirmed I was that Los Angeles is now home.

The trip kicked off with a hilariously awful experience at the world’s most miserable airport, LAX. But the Jewish Wedding Principle I described in that entry held up: various disasters took place, then later had fabulous outcomes.

At the time of writing, this part of the trip is barely half over. Some things turned out even more amazing than I could fathom that don’t even have anything to do with the vacation.

Despite that, it was impossible for me not to notice the dumpster fires’ flames fanning all the way from America’s side of the pond to the Emerald Isle. As I set the vacation responder on my email and enjoyed brown bread and Aperol spritzes after climbing sea cliffs, the Supreme Court memo leak and the…

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Rachel Presser

Game dev, writer, small biz & tax consultant to indie devs. That loud socialist Frog Slut from The Bronx, now in Angel City. https://linktr.ee/sonictoad